The book had been laying in my library for several years....purchased at a yard sale. I finally read it. Powerful. Maybe not as powerful as Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", but then "Creek Mary" is fiction. Have you read it? If not, you should. It brings back all the sadness and frustration of the Native American history. The sojourns I have had into Native American culture and history have many times left me with feelings of sadness and frustration, beginning with my first contact with AIM at the Lock Haven University campus back in 1973 after Wounded Knee to my friendship and long talks with Lakota friend Sign Talker to my doctoral disseration on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School....and continuing on....the latest encounter of these feelings as I read "Creek Mary's Blood". Many Flags