| Description |
1 online resource (236 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Preface; Forethoughts; Smith-Lambert Family Genealogy; Roots; The Cove; Tennessee; Mentor School; Mars Hill; Going Home; Notes |
| 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 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 colorf |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lambert, Leonard Carson
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| SUBJECT |
Lambert, Leonard Carson fast |
| Subject |
Cherokee Indians -- Biography
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Cherokee Indians
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lambert, Michael
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| ISBN |
9780803237704 |
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0803237707 |
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