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Up from these hills : memories of a Cherokee boyhood /
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 Thes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln [Neb.] :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Indians of the Southeast.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 1930s and 1940s 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; his colorf. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxii, 197 pages) : illustrations, genealogical table. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-197). |
| ISBN: | 9780803267930 0803267932 9780803237704 0803237707 1280547103 9781280547102 9786613596208 6613596205 |