A Choctaw Odyssey: The Life of Lesa Phillip Roberts.

Roberts, Charles

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ERIC Number: EJ447721

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1990

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A Choctaw Odyssey: The Life of Lesa Phillip Roberts.

Roberts, Charles

American Indian Quarterly, v14 n3 p259-76 Sum 1990

Recounts the life of a Choctaw woman, born in a Mississippi Choctaw community in 1890, removed to Oklahoma Indian Territory in 1903, and moved to San Francisco in 1944. Describes her marriages, her children's school experiences, the depression, poverty, and stresses of adjustment to urban life. (SV)

Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indians, Biographies, Family History, Family Life, Females, Rural to Urban Migration, Social Adjustment

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: California; Mississippi; Oklahoma

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