Oconaluftee : the history of a Smoky Mountain valley /
"The Oconaluftee Valley, located on the North Carolina side of the Smokies, is home of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians and part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). This seemingly isolated valley has an epic tale to tell. Elizabeth Giddens offers a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2023]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "The Oconaluftee Valley, located on the North Carolina side of the Smokies, is home of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians and part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). This seemingly isolated valley has an epic tale to tell. Elizabeth Giddens offers a deeply researched and elegantly written account of Oconaluftee and its people from Indigenous settlements to the establishment of the national park by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. She builds the tale from archives, census records, property records, personal memoirs, and more, showing how national events affected all Oconaluftee's people-Indigenous, Black, and white"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource : illustrations, maps. |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781469673431 1469673436 |