An Angry Drum Echoed.An Angry Drum Echoed Pamela Bauer Mueller Pinata Publishing 12 Dunbarton Drive, St. Simons Island, GA 31522 Integrated Book Marketing (publicity) PO Box 321, Kings Park, NY 17754 0968509777 $18.95 ww.pinatapub.com Written by Pamela Bauer Mueller (2006 Georgia Author of the Year Winner for YA/Children's books), An Angry Drum Echoed: Mary Musgrove, Queen of the Creeks is a historical fiction novel written from the first-person perspective of a real-life legendary figure--Mary Musgrove, daughter of a Creek mother and an English father, who successfully bridged the two worlds of Indian heritage and the English way of life. A lynchpin lynch·pin n. Variant of linchpin. lynchpin Noun same as linchpin Noun 1. figure of the burgeoning Georgia colony during the 1700s, Mary Musgrove applied her influence with Indian tribes to encourage the chiefs to meet with General Oglethorpe in the Savannah Savannah, city, United States Savannah, city (1990 pop. 137,560), seat of Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry on the Savannah River near its mouth; inc. 1789. , leading to the peaceful establishment of an English colony in Indian territory Indian Territory, in U.S. history, name applied to the country set aside for Native Americans by the Indian Intercourse Act (1834). In the 1820s, the federal government began moving the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw) of the . Yet despite being held in high regard by English settlers as surely as Native Americans, she became an antagonist antagonist /an·tag·o·nist/ (an-tag´o-nist) 1. a substance that tends to nullify the action of another, as a drug that binds to a cell receptor without eliciting a biological response, blocking binding of substances that could of the newly formed colonial government. After ten years of serving as an unpaid diplomat and interpreter, she led her Creek tribesmen in a march through the streets of Savannah in search of justice. A fascinating dramatization dram·a·ti·za·tion n. 1. The act or art of dramatizing: the dramatization of a novel. 2. A work adapted for dramatic presentation: of a truly remarkable and strong-willed woman's life, recommended for readers of all ages. |
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