Bibliograph

Power in the blood, a family narrative, Linda Tate

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Power in the blood, a family narrative, Linda Tate

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

platesillustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Power in the blood

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

704517596

Responsibility statement

Linda Tate

Series statement

Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia

Sub title

a family narrative

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,

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