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Up from these hills : memories of a Cherokee boyhood / Leonard Carson Lambert Jr. ; as told to Michael Lambert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lambert, Leonard Carson.
- Series:
- Indians of the Southeast.
- Indians of the Southeast
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cherokee Indians--Biography.
- Cherokee Indians.
- Lambert, Leonard Carson.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln [Neb.] : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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;
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-197).
- ISBN:
- 9786613596208
- 9780803267930
- 0803267932
- 9781280547102
- 1280547103
- 9780803237704
- 0803237707
- OCLC:
- 793511396
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