UID:
almafu_9959230713602883
Format:
1 online resource (236 p.)
ISBN:
0-8032-6793-2
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1-280-54710-3
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9786613596208
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0-8032-3770-7
Series Statement:
Indians of the Southeast
Content:
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;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8032-3536-4
Language:
English