Jacksonville Public Library

The education of Little Tree, Forrest Carter ; foreword by Rennard Strickland

eng

autobiography

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

no index present

non fiction

The education of Little Tree

12974864

Forrest Carter ; foreword by Rennard Strickland

A zia book

"<i>The Education of Little Tree</i> tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalacian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. "Little Tree," as his grandparents call him, is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains and to respect nature in the Cherokee Way -- taking only what is needed, leaving the rest for nature to run its course. Little Tree also learns the often callous ways of the white businessmen and tax collectors, and how Granpa, in hilarious vignettes, scares them away from his illegal attempts to enter the cash economy. Granma teaches Little Tree the joys of reading and education. But when Little Tree is sent to an Indian boarding school run by whites, we learn of the cruelty meted out to Indian children in an attempt to assimilate them, and of Little Tree's perception of the Anglo worldand how it differs from the Cherokee Way." --Back cover