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17 paź 2023 · Learn about the ancient and modern cultures of the Appalachian region, from Native American mound-builders to European settlers and enslaved Africans. Explore the natural and social features of the mountains and their inhabitants.
Appalachia (/ ˌ æ p ə ˈ l æ tʃ ə,-l eɪ tʃ ə,-l eɪ ʃ ə /) [4] is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. Its boundaries stretch from the western Catskill Mountains of New York into Pennsylvania, continuing on through the Blue Ridge Mountains and Great Smoky Mountains into northern Georgia, Alabama ...
Shelby Lee Adams’ black-and-white portraits of rural Kentucky families show the beauty and hardship of a fading culture. See his intimate and sometimes bleak images of home wakes, coal mining and everyday life.
26 sty 2023 · Join me in this Exploring Appalachia episode as I uncover who the Appalachian people really are beyond the stereotypes and negative portrayals of them in the news and by hollywood.
Appalachian Americans, or simply Appalachians, are Americans living in the geocultural area of Appalachia in the eastern United States, or their descendants. [2][3]
15 lis 2020 · A Brief Appalachian History. Native Americans first began to gather in the Appalachian Mountains some 16,000 years ago. Cherokee Indians were the main Native American group of the Southern Appalachian and Blue Ridge region, but there were also Iroquois, Powhatan, and Shawnee people.
Mountain people were simple folk, always wary of the strangers who found their ways to their communities, certain that they were in the neighborhood for no good, but welcomed anyway.
