Index

This index references major topics, people, places, events, and concepts by chapter number. For a digital reading experience, use your reader's search function alongside this topical guide.

A

A-prefixing: Ch. 31 Absentee ownership: Ch. 15, 18, 23, 32, 41 Adena culture: Ch. 2 Affrilachian Poets: Ch. 28, 40 African Americans in Appalachia: see Black Appalachians Alleghenian orogeny: Ch. 1 American Revolution, Appalachian participation: Ch. 10 Ani-Yunwiya (Principal People): Ch. 3 Appalachian Basin: Ch. 1, 15 Appalachian Citizens' Law Center: Ch. 26 Appalachian English: Ch. 31 Appalachian exceptionalism (debate): Ch. 14, 35, 41, App. C Appalachian Plateau: Ch. 1 Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC): Ch. 23, 32, 36 Appalachian Regional Development Act (1965): Ch. 23 Appalachian Studies (field): Ch. 40 Appalachian Voices (organization): Ch. 26, 37 Archaic period: Ch. 2 Arnow, Harriette (The Dollmaker): Ch. 28 Asheville, North Carolina: Ch. 3, 14, 22, 36 Automation in coal mining: Ch. 32

B

Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency: Ch. 17 Ballad tradition: Ch. 8, 27 Band mills: Ch. 18 Banjo, African origins: Ch. 27 Baptist traditions: Ch. 8, 29 Battle of Blair Mountain (1921): Ch. 17, 26 Battle of Kings Mountain (1780): Ch. 10 Beloved Woman (Ghigau): Ch. 3 Berea College: Ch. 14, 25, 30 Beverly Hillbillies: Ch. 35 Black Appalachians: Ch. 6, 12, 19, 27, 28, 40 Black lung: see Coal workers' pneumoconiosis Black Lung Association: Ch. 21, 26 Blankenship, Don: Ch. 21 Blue Ridge Parkway: Ch. 22 Blue Ridge Province: Ch. 1 Boone, Daniel: Ch. 5 Bristol Sessions (1927): Ch. 27 Broad form deed: Ch. 15, 24 Broadband expansion: Ch. 36 Buffalo Creek disaster (1972): Ch. 26 Buff, Dr. I.E.: Ch. 21 Bushwhackers: Ch. 11

C

Camp meetings: Ch. 8 Camp Solidarity: Ch. 26 Cane Ridge Revival (1801): Ch. 8 Carboniferous period: Ch. 1 Carter Family: Ch. 27 Case, Anne and Deaton, Angus (deaths of despair): Ch. 33, 38 Catte, Elizabeth: Ch. 34, 35 Caudill, Harry (Night Comes to the Cumberlands): Ch. 23 CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps): Ch. 22 Celtic thesis: Ch. 5, App. C Cherokee agriculture: Ch. 3, 30 Cherokee diplomacy: Ch. 3, 4 Cherokee legal resistance: Ch. 4 Cherokee Nation: Ch. 3, 4, 39 Cherokee Phoenix: Ch. 3 Cherokee syllabary: Ch. 3 Child ballads: Ch. 8, 27 Churches as community infrastructure: Ch. 8, 29 Civil War, Appalachian division: Ch. 11 Clan system (Cherokee): Ch. 3 Clearcutting: Ch. 18 Clovis points: Ch. 2 Coal employment decline: Ch. 32 Coal scrip: Ch. 16 Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP/black lung): Ch. 21 Coalfield diversity: Ch. 16, 19 Code-switching: Ch. 31 Community action programs: Ch. 23 Community History Portfolio (progressive project): Ch. 1-42 Company store: Ch. 16 Company town: Ch. 16 Conscription resistance (Civil War): Ch. 11 Coverture: Ch. 9 COVID-era migration: Ch. 36 Crystal Wilkinson: Ch. 28, 40 Culture of poverty thesis: Ch. 14, 23, 34, App. C

D

Dam construction: see Tennessee Valley Authority Deaths of despair: Ch. 33, 38 Deerskin trade: Ch. 3, 7 Deliverance (film): Ch. 35 Dialect geography: Ch. 31 Displacement for national parks: Ch. 22 Double modals: Ch. 31 Dragging Canoe: Ch. 4

E

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI): Ch. 4, 39 Education: Ch. 14, 25 Elizabethan English myth: Ch. 31 Emancipation in mountain context: Ch. 12 Energy transition: Ch. 32, 37 Environmental devastation: Ch. 18, 24, 37 Excise tax resistance: see Whiskey Rebellion

F

Farmington Mine disaster (1968): Ch. 21 Fentanyl crisis: Ch. 33 Feuds: Ch. 13 Fischer, David Hackett: Ch. 5, App. C Folk medicine/herbalism: Ch. 8, 9, 30 Foodways, Appalachian: Ch. 30 Foxfire project: Ch. 30 Fracking: Ch. 32, 37 Franklin, State of: Ch. 10 Free Black communities: Ch. 6, 12 Freedmen's Bureau: Ch. 12 Frontier economy: Ch. 7 Frontier Nursing Service: Ch. 38 Frost, William Goodell ("Our Contemporary Ancestors"): Ch. 14

G

Gaventa, John (Power and Powerlessness): Ch. 41 Gentrification: Ch. 36 German settlers: Ch. 5 Gibson, Larry (Kayford Mountain): Ch. 24, 26 Ginseng trade: Ch. 7 Great Migration out: Ch. 20 Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Ch. 22 Great Wagon Road: Ch. 5 Green Corn Ceremony: Ch. 3 Guerrilla warfare (Civil War): Ch. 11

H

Harlan County, Kentucky: Ch. 1, 15, 16, 17, 20, 23, 32, 33 Harm reduction: Ch. 33 Harrah's Cherokee casino: Ch. 39 Hatfield-McCoy feud: Ch. 13 Hatfield, Devil Anse: Ch. 13 Hatfield, Sid: Ch. 17 Healthcare disparities: Ch. 38 Highlander Folk School: Ch. 25, 26 Hillbilly Elegy (Vance): Ch. 34, 35 Hillbilly Highway (Route 23): Ch. 20 Hillbilly stereotype: Ch. 13, 14, 20, 35 Hindman Settlement School: Ch. 14, 25 Holiness movement: Ch. 29 Holler/hollow: Ch. 1, 5, 16 Hopewell interaction sphere: Ch. 2 Horton, Myles: Ch. 25, 26 Hospital closures, rural: Ch. 38 Housing affordability crisis: Ch. 36 Hungarian miners: Ch. 19

I

Immigration to Appalachia, historical: Ch. 19 Immigration to Appalachia, modern (Latino): Ch. 36 Indian Removal Act (1830): Ch. 4 Inflation Reduction Act (2022): Ch. 37 Internal colonialism: Ch. 23, 41, App. C Interracial organizing (UMWA): Ch. 19 Iron furnaces: Ch. 7 Isolation thesis: Ch. 14, App. C Italian miners: Ch. 19

J

Jackson, Andrew: Ch. 4 Johnson, Lyndon B. (War on Poverty): Ch. 23 Jones, Mary Harris: see Mother Jones Just transition: Ch. 32, 37

K

Kanawha Valley salt works: Ch. 6, 7 Karst topography: Ch. 1 Kayford Mountain: Ch. 24, 26 Kings Mountain, Battle of: Ch. 10 Kituwah immersion program: Ch. 39

L

Labor wars: Ch. 17 Land agents: Ch. 15, 18 Land-grant universities: Ch. 25 Language preservation: Ch. 31, 39 Latino immigration: Ch. 36 Lewis, Helen (internal colonialism): Ch. 41 Lewis, John L. (UMWA): Ch. 17 Li'l Abner: Ch. 35 Linguistic discrimination: Ch. 31 Literacy programs: Ch. 25 Livestock droving: Ch. 7 Local color movement: Ch. 14, 35 Long hunters: Ch. 5 Lumber industry: see Timber industry Lynch, Kentucky (company town): Ch. 16

M

Martin County sludge spill (2000): Ch. 24 Martin County, Kentucky (LBJ visit): Ch. 23 Massey Energy: Ch. 21 Matewan Massacre (1920): Ch. 17 McDowell County, West Virginia: Ch. 1, 16, 20, 23, 32, 33, 38 Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT): Ch. 33 Methodist traditions: Ch. 8, 29 Midwifery: Ch. 9, 38 Migration corridors: Ch. 5, 20 Mine disasters: Ch. 21 Mine guard system: Ch. 16, 17 Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA): Ch. 21 Mineral rights separation: Ch. 15 Mississippian period: Ch. 2 Monongah Mine disaster (1907): Ch. 21 Monroe, Bill (bluegrass): Ch. 27 Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones): Ch. 17 Mount Mitchell: Ch. 1 Mountain Valley Pipeline: Ch. 37 Mountaintop removal (MTR): Ch. 24, 37

N

Naloxone (Narcan): Ch. 33 Nashville (country music industry): Ch. 27 National forests: Ch. 18, 22 National parks, Appalachian: Ch. 22 Natural gas competition: Ch. 32, 37 Neonatal abstinence syndrome: Ch. 33 New Deal: Ch. 22 New Echota: Ch. 3, 4 New River: Ch. 1 Norfolk and Western Railway: Ch. 15, 18

O

Oconaluftee Citizen Indians: Ch. 4, 39 Opioid crisis: Ch. 33 Oral history/oral culture: Ch. 8, 27, 42 Out-migration: Ch. 20 Outdoor recreation economy: Ch. 36 Overmountain Men: Ch. 10 OxyContin: Ch. 33

P

Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike (1912-1913): Ch. 17 Paleo-Indian period: Ch. 2 Pancake, Breece D'J: Ch. 28 Peneplain theory: Ch. 1 Pentecostalism: Ch. 29 Pill mills: Ch. 33 Pine Mountain Settlement School: Ch. 14, 25 Pittston Coal strike (1989): Ch. 26 Polish miners: Ch. 19 Population decline: Ch. 20, 32 Poverty porn: Ch. 35 POWER Initiative: Ch. 32 Proclamation Line of 1763: Ch. 4 Progressive project: see Community History Portfolio Purdue Pharma: Ch. 33

Q

Qualla Boundary: Ch. 4, 39 Quilting traditions: Ch. 30

R

Race in Appalachia: Ch. 6, 12, 19, 27, 40 Railroad expansion: Ch. 15, 18 Ramps (wild leeks): Ch. 30 Rash, Ron: Ch. 28 Reece, Florence ("Which Side Are You On?"): Ch. 17, 27 Religion and labor: Ch. 29 Remote work migration: Ch. 36 Renewable energy: Ch. 37 Resistance tradition: Ch. 10, 17, 26 Ridge and Valley Province: Ch. 1 Ritchie, Jean: Ch. 27 Rodgers, Jimmie: Ch. 27 Ruin porn: Ch. 35 Rural electrification: Ch. 22 Rural hospital closures: Ch. 38 Russell Cave: Ch. 2

S

Sacrifice zone: Ch. 24, 37, 41 Sacred Harp singing: Ch. 8, 27 Sago Mine disaster (2006): Ch. 21 Salt industry: Ch. 6, 7 School consolidation: Ch. 25 Scotch-Irish (Ulster Scots): Ch. 5 Sequoyah: Ch. 3 Settlement schools: Ch. 14, 25 Shape-note singing: Ch. 8, 27 Shapiro, Henry (Appalachia on Our Mind): Ch. 14 Shelton Laurel massacre (1863): Ch. 11 Shenandoah National Park: Ch. 22 Shenandoah Valley: Ch. 5 Single-industry dependency: Ch. 15, 32 Slavery in Appalachia: Ch. 6 Smith, Lee: Ch. 28 SMCRA (Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act): Ch. 24 Snake handling: Ch. 29 Solar energy on mine land: Ch. 37 Sovereignty (EBCI): Ch. 39 Splash dams: Ch. 18 Stanley, Ralph: Ch. 27 State of Franklin: Ch. 10 Stereotypes of Appalachia: Ch. 13, 14, 20, 35 Still, James: Ch. 28 Surface mining: Ch. 24

T

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA): Ch. 22 Thomas, William Holland: Ch. 4, 39 Three Sisters agriculture: Ch. 2, 3, 30 Timber industry: Ch. 18 Tourism: Ch. 36 Trade networks (Indigenous): Ch. 2, 3 Trail of Tears (1838-1839): Ch. 4 Treaty of New Echota (1835): Ch. 4 Treaty of Sycamore Shoals (1775): Ch. 4 Tsali: Ch. 4, 39

U

Underground Railroad in Appalachia: Ch. 6 Unionism (Civil War): Ch. 11 United Mine Workers of America (UMWA): Ch. 17, 19, 21, 26 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster (2010): Ch. 21 Urban Appalachians: Ch. 20

V

Valley fills: Ch. 24 Vance, J.D.: see Hillbilly Elegy Virginia Tech: Ch. 36 VISTA volunteers: Ch. 23

W

Walker, Frank X (Affrilachian): Ch. 28, 40 War on Coal: Ch. 32, 34 War on Poverty: Ch. 23 Watson, Doc: Ch. 27 Watershed systems: Ch. 1 Weeks Act (1911): Ch. 18 West Virginia statehood (1863): Ch. 11 Whiskey as currency: Ch. 7 Whiskey Rebellion (1794): Ch. 10 Wigginton, Eliot: see Foxfire project Wilderness Road: Ch. 5 Wolfram, Walt (dialectology): Ch. 31 Women's economic roles: Ch. 7, 9 Women's history: Ch. 9, 40 Woodland period: Ch. 2 Worcester v. Georgia (1832): Ch. 4

Y

Yellow Dog Democrats: Ch. 34

For detailed definitions of key terms, see the Glossary. For full bibliographic references, see the Bibliography.