Creek Mary's Blood Author:Dee Brown This novel concerns Mary Musgrove who was the Creek wife of John Musgrove, an Indian Trader who had a trading post near the Savannah River when Oglethorpe brought the first settlers to Georgia in 1731. After Mary's husband was killed, she was eventually forced to abandon her home and people. The novel sets out the problems she encountered an... more »d follows her children (Mary's Blood) on the trail of tears westward and ends up with some of her decendants involved in the battle of Little Big Horn.
This novel transports the reader into the person of Mary Musgrove and allows us to feel the pains endured by the natives of this country during a period of disgraceful acts committed by some of our forefathers in the name of patriotism.« 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.