Power in the blood : a family narrative / Linda Tate.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tate, Linda.

Series:

Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia.

Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cherokee Indians--Appalachian Region, Southern--Genealogy.

Cherokee Indians.

Cherokee Indians--Appalachian Region, Southern--Biography.

Cherokee Indians--Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions.

Multiracial people--United States--Biography.

Multiracial people.

Cherokee women--Appalachian Region, Southern--Biography.

Cherokee women.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Biography.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Genealogy.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Race relations.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Social conditions.

Tate, Linda--Family.

Tate, Linda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate's journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives. In her search for the truth of her own past, Tate scoured archives, libraries, and courthouses throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois, and Missouri, visited numerous cemeteries, and combed through census records, marriage records, court cases, local histories, old maps, and photographs. As she began to locate distant relatives - fifth, sixth,

Contents:

Author's Note; Linda's Story 1988-1993; Louisiana's Story 1902; Gallery; Linda's Story 1964-1981; Fannie's Story 1963; Linda's Story 1966-1998; Epilogue; Afterword; References and Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780821443460

0821443461

OCLC:

704517596