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UNINA9910461094003321 |
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Lambert Leonard Carson |
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Titolo |
Up from these hills [[electronic resource] ] : memories of a Cherokee boyhood / / Leonard Carson Lambert Jr. ; as told to Michael Lambert |
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Lincoln [Neb.], : University of Nebraska Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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0-8032-6793-2 |
1-280-54710-3 |
9786613596208 |
0-8032-3770-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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LambertMichael C. <1960-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cherokee Indians |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-197). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Preface; Forethought's; Smith-Lambert Family Genealogy; Roots; The Cove; Tennessee; Mentor School; Mars Hill; Going Home; Notes |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Born into a storied but impoverished family on the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Leonard Carson Lambert Jr.'s candid memoir is a remarkable story and an equally remarkable flouting of the stereotypes that so many tales of American Indian life have engendered. Up from These Hills provides a grounded, yet poignant, description of what it was like to grow up during the 1930's and 1940's in the mountains of western North Carolina and on a sharecropper's farm in eastern Tennessee. Lambert straightforwardly describes his independent, hardworking, and stubborn parents; |
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