Indicação do livro Creek Mary's Blood: A Novel.

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Creek Mary's Blood: A Novel
Dee Brown

Na forma de uma emocionante ficção, o historiador e especialista na história do oeste americano Dee Brown conta com grande precisão histórica o drama, a luta e o sacrifício dos povos nativos, passando por cinco gerações de Creek Mary (personagem baseada na vida de Mary Musgrove). Ótimo livro para quem se interessar por esse fascinante período da história do oeste americano, além de ser muito bem escrito.

Alguns pequenos trechos dessa triste e dramática história:

"We are all savages. Down beneath the skin, no matter the color of the skin, down there we are all fierce, cruel, bloodthirsty as the beasts. It is a part of the balance of nature."

"No tribe has a right to sell the land. Why not sell the air, the clouds, and the great sea, as well as the land? Did the One Above not make them all for the use of his children?"

"My own feet will never willingly take me from these hills and waters that I have learned to love as I love my children."

"To survive, the weak must feed on the hearts of the strong."

"She wanted nothing more than happiness for me and her children, clothing and food, a shelter that was cool in summer and warm in winter, and she knew that from the buffalo she could have all these things. Why any living being would want more than that she could not comprehend. Goods were to be shared, not accumulated."

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