The Lambert Tapes
Volume 1
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The Lambert Tapes represents a refreshing departure from the endlessly footnoted, numbingly dry and mundane, history books. This text is history in the raw! These stories and accounts have been interpretively transcribed from a series of taped conversations with the late and eminent historian for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Carl Glenn Lambert. Herein are fi rst person revelations of Cherokee Indian history, remembrances, assorted stories, and commentary on a wide variety of subjects. The dialog is enlightening and inspirationally uplifting.
Conversations consist of disjointed and fragmented statements, which are comprised of jumbled words and phrases – not to mention silent inferences. This free fl owing exchange with Carl Lambert was totally unrehearsed and certainly the subjects were not preplanned. For clarification and appreciation, the author has inserted supplemental and supportive background information.
Readers should not be surprised to encounter radically differing views and opinions about certain “published” and generally “accepted” matters of Cherokee and other histories. In depth explorations of the Cherokee removal of 1838-39, and the formation of the Reservation at Cherokee, NC, are prime examples of such topics. The author’s intent has been to transcribe and present all these views in the same spirit and manner that Carl intended.