Creek Mary's Blood Author:Dee Brown "Creek Mary's Blood is, quite literally, a thrilling book. It crackles with zest and life... the history lives as much as the characters, and that is saying a great deal. Brown has truly penetrated into the sacredness of Indian life... Creek Mary's Blood is in the same high tradition as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." - Gloria Jahoda, author... more » of The Trail of Tears« less
I thought this book was a little slow moving when I started it. It reads like a history book sometimes. However, I stuck with it and was absolutely astounded. I thought I knew the history of the Trail of Tears, but this book went into the details of what the Cherokee people had done to "settle" their land and create their own government before Andrew Jackson signed their removal orders. I've since seen a documentary of the same. This should be mandatory reading for high school English or history classes. Americans should be required to know what the Native peoples in this continent went through in the name of western expansion. I could not put the book down and I recommend this to anyone who wants to learn the realities the Native American faced when this country was established.