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Author Tate, Linda.

Title Power in the blood : a family narrative / Linda Tate
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (229 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Series Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia
Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia.
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
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,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Tate, Linda -- Family
SUBJECT Tate, Linda fast
Subject Cherokee Indians -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Genealogy
Cherokee Indians -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography
Cherokee Indians -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography
Cherokee women -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
REFERENCE -- Genealogy & Heraldry.
HISTORY -- General.
Cherokee Indians
Cherokee Indians -- Social conditions
Cherokee women
Families
Race relations
Racially mixed people
Social conditions
SUBJECT Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Genealogy
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Race relations
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions
Subject Southern Appalachian Region
United States
Genre/Form Family histories
Biographies
Genealogy
Biographies.
Family histories.
Biographies.
Histoires familiales.
Genealogy
collective biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821443460
0821443461