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Up from These Hills: Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood (Indians of the Southeast) - Softcover

Buch 5 von 9: Indians of the Southeast

Lambert, Leonard Carson; Lambert, Michael

 
9780803235366: Up from These Hills: Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood (Indians of the Southeast)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803235364 ISBN 13: 9780803235366
Verlag: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

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 colorful extended family; his eighth-grade teacher, who recognized his potential and first planted the idea that he might attend college; as well as siblings, schoolmates, and others who shaped his life. He paints a vivid picture of life on the reservation and off, documenting work, family life, education, religion, and more. Up from These Hills also tells the true story of how this family rose from depression-era poverty, a story rarely told about Indian families. With its utterly unique voice, this vivid memoir evokes an unknown yet important part of the American experience, even as it reveals the realities behind Indian experience and rural poverty in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Leonard Carson Lambert Jr. grew up on and around the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee during the 1930s and 1940s. He earned his engineering degree at North Carolina State College and worked for Alcoa throughout the world. Michael Lambert earned his doctorate in social anthropology from Harvard University and is currently associate professor of anthropology and African studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Both are enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

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Verlag
UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803235364
ISBN 13 
9780803235366
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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