Milly Francis: The Life & Times of the Creek Pocahontas

Milly Francis is the true story of the first woman to receive a special medal of honor from the U.S. Congress.

Born in the Creek Nation of Alabama in around 1803, Milly was a first hand witness to the rise and fall of her father's religious movement and the Creek War of 1813-1814. By the time she was 15 years old, she had survived three wars and a desperate flight for survival to Spanish Florida.

It was at that age that she saved the life of an American soldier named Duncan McCrimmon, a m...