The Shoe Box: The Story of the Hubbards of Kinlock, Alabama
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The Shoe Box: The Story of the Hubbards of Kinlock, Alabama
Sale price
$28.99
Regular price $34.99
A shoebox of photographs, handed down by a great-grandmother, became a doorway into a history long buried but never forgotten.
In The Shoe Box, Frances Olivia Bush, known as Dancing Moon, traces the lives of her ancestors, the Hubbards of Kinlock Falls, Alabama, uncovering an Indigenous family’s story shaped by land, forced removal, survival, silence, and remembrance. Guided by oral history, archival records, blood memory, and the land itself, she restores identities that were mislabeled, erased, or rewritten by colonial systems.
This memoir is more than family history; it is reclamation. It bears witness to an Indigenous presence that never left, that endured war, displacement, the Trail of Tears, and misidentification, and to the enduring power of a people whose story continues through blood and time.
In The Shoe Box, Frances Olivia Bush, known as Dancing Moon, traces the lives of her ancestors, the Hubbards of Kinlock Falls, Alabama, uncovering an Indigenous family’s story shaped by land, forced removal, survival, silence, and remembrance. Guided by oral history, archival records, blood memory, and the land itself, she restores identities that were mislabeled, erased, or rewritten by colonial systems.
This memoir is more than family history; it is reclamation. It bears witness to an Indigenous presence that never left, that endured war, displacement, the Trail of Tears, and misidentification, and to the enduring power of a people whose story continues through blood and time.