Lighting the Fire: A Cherokee Journey from Dropout to Professor

by Steve Russell

Book Overview

Abandoned by his Cherokee father to be raised by his white mother, Stephen Teehee was abandoned again to the care of his 75 year old grandfather and 60 year old grandmother in the fading oil boomtown of Bristow, Oklahoma The Russells did the best they could with what they had. The Russells met in Indian Territory, the western terminus of the Trail of Tears. They told their Cherokee grandson the truth about his origins and offered up the most famous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939282446
• ISBN13: 9781939282446
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Miniver Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"