The Education of Little Tree

Carter, Forrest

ISBN 10: 0826312330 / ISBN 13: 9780826312334

Published by University of New Mexico Press (edition ), 1990

About this Item

With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Seller Inventory # 0826312330-7-1-29

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Education of Little Tree
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826312330
• ISBN 13: 9780826312334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

"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 Tree's 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.

About the Author

Forrest Carter (1925-79) was born and raised in Oxford, Alabama.