The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter

The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter

The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression.

Little Tree as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, 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 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 taken away by whites for schooling, we learn of the cruelty meted out to Indian children in an attempt to assimilate them and of Little Trees perception of the Anglo world and how it differs from the Cherokee Way.

A classic of its era, and an enduring book for all ages, The Education of Little Tree has now been redesigned for this twenty-fifth anniversary edition.

Carter, Forrest: - Forrest Carter (1925-1979) was born as Asa Earl Carter and was raised in Oxford, Alabama. He was a segregationist speech writer who reinvented himself as a Western novelist, publishing The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales, The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales, The Education of Little Tree, and Watch for Me on the Mountain.

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ISBN 13	9780826308795
ISBN 10	0826308791
Title	The Education of Little Tree
Author	Forrest Carter
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of New Mexico Press
Year published	1990-07-01
Number of pages	216
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