| Up from These Hills: Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood Contributor(s): Lambert, Leonard Carson (Author), Lambert, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803235364 ISBN-13: 9780803235366 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Native American & Aboriginal - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2011012653 |
| Series: Indians of the Southeast |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.67" W x 8.49" (0.65 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1930's - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Chronological Period - 1940's - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina - Geographic Orientation - Tennessee |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |