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Menawa

Menawa (c. 1765 – after 1836), also known as Hothlepoya or "Crazy War Hunter," was a Muscogee (Creek) war chief and leader of the traditionalist Red Stick faction that resisted American expansion during the Creek War of 1813–1814.^[1]^[2] Born in the Okfuskee village along the Tallapoosa River to a Creek mother and an Anglo-American father, he rose to prominence through daring raids against settlers and rival tribes.^[1]^[3] Menawa commanded Red Stick forces at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in March 1814, where his approximately 1,000 warriors fortified a bend in the Tallapoosa River but suffered a decisive defeat by U.S. troops under Andrew Jackson, resulting in over 800 Creek deaths; wounded seven times, Menawa survived by feigning death and swimming to safety.^[2]^[4] Following the war and the punitive Treaty of Fort Jackson, which ceded vast Creek lands, he opposed accommodationist leaders and in 1825 orchestrated the execution of William McIntosh for signing the Treaty of Indian Springs, which further diminished Creek territory.^[1] Forced to relocate to Indian Territory during the Trail of Tears era, Menawa continued advocating for Creek sovereignty until his death.^[2]^[3]

Early Life and Background

Birth and Ancestry

Menawa, originally known as Hothlepoya, was born circa 1765 in the Upper Creek town of Okfuskee, situated along the Tallapoosa River in present-day Alabama, an area now submerged under the lower portion of Lake Martin.^[1]^[2]^[4] Of mixed ancestry, Menawa's mother was a Muscogee (Creek) woman from the matrilineal society, while his father was a white trader, described in historical accounts as either an Anglo-American deerskin trader or of Scottish origin, reflecting the intercultural exchanges prevalent in the region during the colonial era.^[1]^[4]^[5] This parentage positioned him within the Creek cultural framework through his maternal lineage, which determined tribal affiliation and inheritance in Muscogee tradition.^[4] Specific names of his parents remain undocumented in primary historical records, underscoring the challenges in tracing precise genealogical details for indigenous figures of this period reliant on oral histories and fragmented European accounts.^[1]

Upbringing and Early Influences

Menawa, born around 1765, was the son of a Creek woman and an Anglo-American deerskin trader of Scottish descent, reflecting common intercultural alliances in the colonial Southeast.^[1]^[4] As a member of the matrilineal Muscogee (Creek) society, his identity and social status derived primarily from his mother's clan, ensuring upbringing within Creek cultural norms despite his mixed parentage.^[1] He grew up in the Upper Creek town of Okfuskee, assimilating fully into Native traditions and customs, which shaped his early worldview amid the tensions of encroaching European settlement.^[4] This environment, characterized by communal town life along rivers like the Tallapoosa, emphasized martial skills and self-reliance, fostering Menawa's initial path as a warrior rather than through formal education or trade initially pursued by some mixed-heritage individuals.^[2] His early influences centered on the competitive warrior ethos of Upper Creek society, where young men gained prestige through raids and conflicts with rival tribes or frontier settlers; by his youth, Menawa had earned the name Hothlepoya ("Crazy Trouble Hunter") for daring exploits, including horse-raiding in Tennessee's Cumberland settlements, which built his reputation and honed leadership abilities prior to broader political involvement.^[2]^[6] These activities, rooted in traditional Creek practices of retaliation and resource acquisition, distanced him from accommodationist tendencies emerging among Lower Creeks and oriented him toward resistance against external pressures.^[1]

Pre-Creek War Activities

Warrior Exploits and Reputation

Menawa, originally known as Hothlepoya or "Crazy War Hunter," gained early renown among the Upper Creek towns for his bold and audacious raids, particularly targeting American settlements in Tennessee's Cumberland region to capture horses.^[2] These exploits, conducted in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, showcased his skill in guerrilla tactics and evasion, earning him the nickname reflective of his reckless bravery and effectiveness in horse theft from encroaching settlers.^[1] Such raids were part of broader Creek practices to acquire valuable livestock amid expanding European-American frontiers, contributing to Menawa's status as a daring warrior in the Oakfuskee towns along the Tallapoosa River.^[3] Historical records also associate Menawa with inter-tribal conflicts, including participation in a raid against the Osage in 1810, during which he and others were suspected of diverting captured horses for personal gain upon return, highlighting his active role in traditional warfare beyond settler targets.^[7] By the eve of the Creek War in 1813, these activities had established Menawa as one of the wealthiest and most respected fighters among the Upper Creeks, with his reputation built on proven martial prowess rather than inherited chiefly status.^[8] Contemporary accounts emphasize his leadership in small war parties, where success in raids bolstered personal prestige and economic standing through horse trading and distribution of spoils.^[6] Menawa held a prominent social position in the traditional Upper Creek town of Okfuskee, located along the Tallapoosa River in present-day Alabama, where he was born around 1765 and raised according to matrilineal customs that traced status through the mother's clan. By 1811, his reputation as a daring warrior elevated him to the role of second chief in Okfuskee, a leadership position that involved advising on town affairs, organizing military expeditions, and upholding conservative Creek values resistant to European-American acculturation prevalent among Lower Creeks.^[4]^[9] This status positioned him as an influential figure among the Upper Creeks, who emphasized communal town governance, ritual practices, and defense against settler encroachment.^[2] Economically, Menawa amassed significant wealth typical of elite Upper Creek warriors, owning large herds of horses, cattle, and hogs acquired partly through raids on American settlements in Tennessee's Cumberland region during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. These expeditions, for which he earned the nickname Hothlepoya ("Crazy" or "Trouble Hunter") due to his bold tactics, targeted livestock as valuable commodities in Creek trade networks, including exchanges of horses and pelts for goods from Spanish Pensacola.^[2]^[9] He also held black slaves, reflecting the adoption of plantation-style agriculture and labor practices influenced by European contacts, which supplemented subsistence farming of corn and hunting in Upper Creek society.^[9] This prosperity underscored his role in sustaining the town's self-sufficiency amid growing pressures from white expansion.^[4]

Involvement in the Creek Civil War

Alignment with the Red Sticks Faction

Menawa, a prominent war chief from the Upper Creek town of Okfuskee, aligned himself with the Red Sticks faction during the early stages of the Creek Civil War in 1813, rejecting the accommodationist policies of Lower Creek leaders who favored trade and land concessions to American settlers.^[2] The Red Sticks, primarily from Upper Creek towns along the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers, sought to revive traditional Muscogee practices, including communal land ownership and resistance to cultural assimilation, viewing accommodationists as eroding tribal sovereignty amid increasing U.S. encroachments.^[10] Menawa's commitment reflected his prior warrior experiences and opposition to unauthorized treaties, such as those ceding Creek lands without broad consensus, which he saw as betrayals enabling settler violence and debt accumulation among pro-assimilation elites.^[4] This alignment intensified following the visit of Shawnee leader Tecumseh in late 1811, who urged southeastern tribes to unite against U.S. expansion by rejecting trade goods and forming a pan-Indian confederacy; Menawa and other Upper Creek leaders adopted the "red stick" as a war symbol, signaling defiance against both federal authorities and internal factions tolerant of white influence.^[10] By mid-1813, after Red Stick warriors attacked Fort Mims on August 30—killing approximately 500 settlers and prompting U.S. intervention—Menawa emerged as a principal commander, organizing resistance from strongholds like the Horseshoe Bend while condemning accommodationists for allegedly supplying ammunition to enemies.^[11] His faction's ideology emphasized martial discipline and expulsion of white traders, positioning Menawa as a defender of Creek autonomy against what he perceived as existential threats from both external armies and internal division.^[4]

Key Military Engagements

Menawa commanded Red Stick warriors as a principal war chief during the Creek War of 1813–1814, focusing on resistance to U.S. military incursions into Upper Creek lands along the Tallapoosa and Coosa rivers.^[2] Influenced by Tecumseh's advocacy for pan-Indian confederation against American settlement, he aligned with the faction's militant efforts following early clashes such as the Battle of Burnt Corn Creek on July 27, 1813, and the Fort Mims Massacre on August 30, 1813, where Red Sticks killed approximately 500 defenders, including settlers, militia, and allied Creeks.^[12] ^[4] These events prompted retaliatory expeditions by U.S. forces, against which Menawa mobilized fighters from towns like Okfuskee for raids, ambushes, and defensive skirmishes aimed at disrupting supply lines and protecting Creek villages.^[10] As American armies under generals like Andrew Jackson and John Coffee inflicted defeats on Red Stick outposts—such as at Tallushatchee on November 3, 1813, where 186 warriors were killed, and Talladega on November 9, 1813, resulting in over 290 Red Stick casualties—Menawa coordinated the faction's regrouping and fortification strategies in the face of mounting losses exceeding 500 combatants by late 1813.^[13] ^[14] His engagements emphasized asymmetric warfare, leveraging terrain for hit-and-run tactics that prolonged the conflict despite numerical disadvantages, reflecting the Red Sticks' commitment to traditional Creek sovereignty amid internal divisions and external pressures.^[4] These actions, though ultimately unsustainable, demonstrated Menawa's tactical acumen in sustaining organized resistance until the consolidation of forces for the climactic defense at Tohopeka.^[15]

The Battle of Horseshoe Bend

The Battle of Horseshoe Bend occurred on March 27, 1814, along the Tallapoosa River in present-day Alabama, where approximately 1,000 Red Stick Creek warriors, under Menawa's command as war chief from the town of Okfuskee, fortified a horseshoe-shaped bend to make a final stand against advancing American forces.^[16] ^[2] Menawa, having aligned with the Red Sticks amid the Creek Civil War, directed the construction of defensive log breastworks up to seven feet high across the 300-yard-wide neck of the peninsula, positioning his fighters—many armed only with bows, clubs, and a few stolen muskets—behind these barriers, bolstered by the impassable river on three sides and inspired by the prophet Monahee's assurances of supernatural aid.^[17] ^[18] This position represented a consolidation of Red Stick remnants following prior defeats, with Menawa rallying warriors from various Upper Creek towns to resist what they viewed as existential threats from American expansion and Lower Creek accommodationists.^[19] Major General Andrew Jackson approached with a force of roughly 3,300 troops, comprising U.S. regulars, Tennessee and Georgia militia, and allied Cherokee and Lower Creek contingents, arriving on March 26 after a grueling march.^[20] Jackson first deployed artillery—two cannons and a howitzer—to bombard the Red Stick positions for several hours on the 27th, breaching the breastworks in places but failing to dislodge the defenders, who returned fire and repelled initial probes.^[18] Around midday, Jackson ordered a coordinated assault: Brigadier General John Coffee's mounted cavalry, supported by Cherokee and friendly Creek warriors, forded the Tallapoosa upstream to attack from the rear, setting fire to the village within the bend and cutting off escape routes, while the main infantry line charged the front under heavy resistance.^[20] ^[19] The fighting devolved into brutal hand-to-hand combat, with Red Sticks emerging from cover to engage in close-quarters melee, leveraging numerical parity in the confined space but hampered by ammunition shortages and the encircling flames.^[18] Menawa personally led the defense, sustaining seven wounds during the five-hour engagement yet continuing to fight until the position collapsed.^[4] ^[20] By late afternoon, the Red Sticks' resistance broke; over 800 warriors lay dead—representing about 80% of their force and the largest single loss of Native American combatants in U.S. history—while survivors attempted desperate swims across the river, many perishing under gunfire from Coffee's flanking units.^[18] ^[20] ^[19] American casualties totaled 47 killed and 159 wounded among Jackson's troops, plus 23 killed and 47 wounded for Native allies.^[18] Menawa survived by feigning death amid the slain until nightfall, then escaping via canoe with a few companions, evading immediate capture despite his severe injuries.^[4] ^[20] The defeat shattered Red Stick military capacity, paving the way for the Treaty of Fort Jackson in August 1814, which compelled Creek cession of 23 million acres regardless of factional loyalty, as Jackson imposed terms on the entire nation.^[19] For Menawa, the battle marked a tactical nadir but did not end his leadership; recovering from his wounds, he later criticized the treaty's inequities and resumed advocacy against further land losses, though the loss underscored the asymmetry in firepower and alliances that doomed the Red Sticks' insurgency.^[4] ^[17]

Post-War Resistance and Internal Conflicts

Opposition to Land Cessions

Following the punitive land losses imposed by the Treaty of Fort Jackson in 1814, which ceded over 21 million acres of Creek territory despite Menawa's survival and leadership in the preceding conflict, he aligned with traditionalist factions resisting subsequent U.S. pressures for further concessions. In 1824, the Creek National Council passed a law prohibiting any additional land cessions under penalty of death, reflecting widespread opposition among Upper Creek leaders like Menawa to erosion of communal holdings amid growing settler encroachments.^[21] This stance crystallized in response to the Treaty of Indian Springs, signed on February 12, 1825, by a minority faction including William McIntosh, which surrendered nearly all remaining Creek lands east of the Mississippi—approximately 4.5 million acres in Georgia—for $200,000 and modest annuities, in direct violation of the 1824 law.^[22] Menawa, appointed to head the National Council's "law menders" enforcement squad of about 200 warriors, enforced the penalty by leading an assault on McIntosh's Chattahoochee River plantation on May 1, 1825; the group shot the chief 18 times before burning his home, an act framed by Creeks as upholding tribal sovereignty against unauthorized betrayal.^[23] Menawa's resistance extended diplomatically: in late 1825, he joined an official Creek delegation to Washington, D.C., to denounce the treaty as invalid for lacking National Council consent and forged under duress or bribery.^[1] Their arguments prevailed, prompting U.S. ratification of the Treaty of Washington on January 24, 1826, which nullified key Indian Springs provisions, reduced some cessions, and provided supplemental payments of $275,000, though it still compelled significant territorial losses and foreshadowed broader removal pressures. Despite these efforts, Menawa's actions underscored a causal pattern of internal Creek divisions exacerbated by U.S. divide-and-conquer tactics, prioritizing short-term elite gains over collective territorial integrity.^[21]

The Execution of William McIntosh

In response to William McIntosh's signing of the Treaty of Indian Springs on February 12, 1825, which ceded nearly all remaining Creek lands in Georgia without broader tribal authorization, the Creek National Council convened and declared the treaty invalid under traditional Creek laws prohibiting unauthorized land sales.^[22]^[23] The council, dominated by Upper Creek leaders opposed to further cessions, sentenced McIntosh and other signatories to death, appointing a group known as "Law Menders" to enforce the ruling and restore tribal order.^[22]^[2] Menawa, a prominent Upper Creek chief and former Red Stick leader, was selected to lead the execution party due to his longstanding opposition to McIntosh and his influence among traditionalist warriors.^[22]^[24] On April 30, 1825, just before dawn, Menawa and approximately 200 Creek warriors arrived at McIntosh's plantation, Lockchau Talofau, in what is now Carroll County, Georgia.^[22]^[25] They surrounded the house, set it ablaze, and shot McIntosh as he attempted to flee, killing him along with two companions; McIntosh's son survived by hiding.^[22]^[24]^[25] The execution exemplified internal Creek divisions between accommodationist Lower Creeks like McIntosh, who favored selective alliances with the United States, and traditionalist Upper Creeks led by figures like Menawa, who prioritized communal land retention.^[22]^[2] While U.S. officials condemned the act as murder, the Creek council viewed it as lawful retribution against treasonous betrayal, reflecting customary practices for enforcing national decisions.^[22]^[23] Similar fates befell other treaty signers, including Etommee and Samuel Hawkins, underscoring the council's resolve to nullify the agreement.^[24]^[22]

Removal to Indian Territory and Death

The Trail of Tears

Despite his alliance with U.S. forces during the Creek War of 1836, where he commanded approximately 1,200 Creek warriors against dissident factions resisting removal, Menawa could not avert the expulsion of his people from ancestral lands in Alabama.^[1] The federal government, under President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal policy, enforced the relocation of the remaining Creek population—estimated at around 15,000 individuals—beginning in the summer of 1836, following the suppression of the rebellion.^[4] Menawa, then in his early seventies, was compelled to join this forced migration to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), enduring internment in makeshift stockades before departure.^[2] The Creek removals, often encompassed under the broader term "Trail of Tears," involved multiple detachments marching over 800 miles westward under military supervision led by General Winfield Scott, departing Alabama between July and October 1836.^[4] Conditions were dire, marked by inadequate food supplies, rampant disease such as dysentery and smallpox, and exposure to harsh weather, resulting in thousands of deaths—contemporary estimates suggest up to 3,500 Creeks perished en route or in transit camps from starvation, illness, and exhaustion.^[21] Menawa's group faced these same perils, though specific details of his detachment's hardships remain sparsely documented beyond the general accounts of overcrowding and neglect by contractors responsible for logistics. Menawa advocated for individual land allotments to allow some Creeks to remain as U.S. citizens prior to removal, a proposal reflecting his pragmatic shift from outright resistance to partial accommodation, but it failed to halt the collective deportation.^[26] Upon reaching Indian Territory in early 1837, the survivors, including Menawa, settled amid ongoing tribal disarray and resource scarcity, with the journey exacerbating factional divisions that had long plagued Creek leadership.^[2]

Final Years and Demise

Following the forced removal of the Creek Nation to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in the mid-1830s, Menawa's activities and residence there remain largely undocumented in historical records.^[1] He is believed to have survived the arduous journey, unlike many who perished en route, but no specific accounts detail his role or status among the relocated Creeks after arrival.^[27]^[2] Menawa's date and cause of death are unknown, with estimates varying from circa 1836 to after 1837, occurring in Indian Territory.^[2]^[28] Some secondary sources suggest he may have lived until the 1860s, but primary records are silent on his final years, resting place, or any leadership involvement post-removal.^[29]^[1] This lack of documentation reflects the broader disruptions faced by Creek survivors, though it underscores the scarcity of verifiable details on Menawa's later life.^[1]

Legacy and Assessments

Military Achievements and Reputation

Menawa rose to prominence as a military leader among the Upper Creeks during the Creek War of 1813–1814, where his reputation for valor and skill in combat elevated him to a position of authority despite not holding the highest chiefly title in his town. As a key commander in the Red Sticks faction, he demonstrated tactical prowess in organizing resistance against American forces, though specific pre-Horseshoe Bend engagements under his direct leadership are less documented than his overall role in the faction's campaigns.^[3]^[2] His most significant military achievement came at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend on March 27, 1814, where Menawa commanded roughly 1,000 Red Stick warriors fortified within a sharp bend of the Tallapoosa River, supported by log breastworks and defended against an assault by Major General Andrew Jackson's combined force of approximately 3,000 U.S. regulars, volunteers, and Cherokee allies. The Red Sticks mounted a fierce defense, inflicting around 200 casualties on the attackers, but suffered catastrophic losses with over 800 warriors killed—many in desperate attempts to swim the river under fire—and Menawa himself sustaining seven wounds. Despite the defeat, his survival through feigning death amid the carnage and subsequent escape by canoe underscored his personal resilience and contributed to his enduring image as an indomitable fighter.^[4]^[15]^[19] Menawa's leadership at Horseshoe Bend, though resulting in tactical failure, solidified his reputation as the "Great Warrior" among the Creeks, with contemporaries noting his preeminence in perilous situations due to proven courage and strategic acumen. This battle's outcome broke Red Stick power but highlighted Menawa's ability to rally and sustain a large force under siege, earning him legendary status as a defender of Creek sovereignty against overwhelming odds. Post-war, he briefly allied with U.S. forces in the First Seminole War (1817–1818), leveraging his military experience, though his primary acclaim derives from the Creek War defiance.^[3]^[15]^[1]

Criticisms and Controversies

Menawa's leadership within the militant Red Stick faction during the Creek War of 1813–1814 was criticized by pro-accommodationist Creeks and U.S. officials for exacerbating internal divisions and provoking widespread violence, including the Red Sticks' assassination campaigns against allied chiefs and the Fort Mims Massacre on August 30, 1813, where approximately 500 settlers, including women and children, were killed.^[30]^[31] Although Menawa did not directly command the Fort Mims attack, led primarily by William Weatherford, his prominent role as a Red Stick prophet warrior and advocate for traditional resistance aligned him with actions that unified opposing Creek towns against the faction and invited devastating U.S. retaliation under Andrew Jackson.^[4] The most notable controversy surrounding Menawa involved his command of a contingent of 150 to 300 Creek "law menders" who executed William McIntosh, a Lower Creek chief and U.S. ally, on May 1, 1825, at McIntosh's plantation in present-day Carroll County, Georgia.^[32] The Creek National Council had condemned McIntosh to death for violating a 1819 tribal law prohibiting unauthorized land cessions by signing the Treaty of Indian Springs on February 12, 1825, which surrendered vast Creek territories in Georgia and Alabama; Menawa's party shot McIntosh as he fled his burning home and destroyed his property, enforcing what traditionalists viewed as justice against betrayal but which McIntosh's supporters and U.S. authorities decried as vigilante murder of a key mediator.^[2]^[24] President John Quincy Adams reacted with condemnation, dispatching commissioners to demand reparations from the Creeks for McIntosh's losses and leveraging the incident to nullify the original treaty while pressuring for the more punitive Treaty of Washington in January 1826, which ceded additional lands and accelerated removal efforts.^[32] Menawa's post-war opposition to land cessions and advocacy for retaining individual plots over collective tribal rights further polarized him against assimilationist elements, particularly Lower Creeks like McIntosh's followers, who accused him of intransigence that hastened federal intervention and the tribe's fragmentation.^[26]^[4] This militancy, rooted in defense of Creek sovereignty, was faulted by contemporaries for prioritizing resistance over pragmatic adaptation, contributing to the Creeks' ultimate expulsion via the Treaty of New Echota and the Trail of Tears.^[21]

Historical Interpretations and Viewpoints

Menawa's leadership during the Creek War of 1813–1814 has been interpreted by historians as emblematic of traditionalist resistance to cultural assimilation and territorial encroachment, with his command of roughly 1,000 Red Stick warriors at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend on March 27, 1814, representing a desperate stand for Creek autonomy. Eyewitness accounts and subsequent analyses describe Menawa sustaining multiple gunshot wounds and bayonet injuries yet evading capture by crossing the Tallapoosa River under fire, an exploit that underscores his personal valor and has shaped narratives of indigenous defiance against superior U.S. forces led by Andrew Jackson.^[17]^[2] This view posits Menawa's alignment with nativist prophets like Tenskwatawa as a rational response to accelerating white settlement and internal factionalism, though empirical outcomes—over 800 Red Stick deaths at Horseshoe Bend and the subsequent Treaty of Fort Jackson ceding 21 million acres—highlight the mismatch between ideological purity and military reality.^[33] Contrasting interpretations emphasize Menawa's polarizing role in precipitating Creek internal divisions, portraying the Red Sticks' preemptive strikes on settlements like Fort Mims in August 1813 as catalysts for civil war that unified disparate U.S., Lower Creek, and Cherokee forces against them. Scholars analyzing the conflict's military dynamics argue that Menawa's faction, while defending traditional practices against accommodationist elites, bore responsibility for escalating violence that invited Jackson's invasion and punitive land seizures, framing his actions as strategically flawed rather than heroic.^[34]^[35] This perspective, drawn from primary military records and Creek oral traditions, critiques the Red Sticks' rejection of diplomacy—evident in Menawa's post-war opposition to cessions—as prolonging suffering without altering the trajectory of dispossession, especially given U.S. demographic pressures and federal expansionist policies post-War of 1812.^[36] In assessments of his later career, Menawa emerges as a bridge between martial and political resistance, leading the 1825 execution of William McIntosh for fraudulently signing the Treaty of Indian Springs, which aimed to void unauthorized cessions of 4.7 million acres, and joining delegations to Washington in 1826 to secure partial treaty nullification.^[21] Historians diverge on whether this vigilance preserved Creek sovereignty temporarily or merely delayed inevitable removal, with some attributing his 1836 relocation amid the Trail of Tears to pragmatic adaptation rather than defeatism.^[3] Overall, modern scholarship, informed by archival treaty documents and factional correspondence, balances admiration for Menawa's consistency in opposing encroachments with recognition that militant traditionalism, absent broader alliances, amplified causal pressures toward dissolution, contrasting sharply with accommodationists' short-term concessions.^[4]^[37]

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Graduate seminar paper. Analyzes the Creek Civil War and argues that differences within the Red Stick movement led to defeat.
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The Creek War of 1813 and 1814 - Digital Library of Georgia
Its power continually strengthened, until, in the early years of the ... The first birth was in 1805, and then the births were in each odd year, or ...Missing: ancestry | Show results with:ancestry
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[PDF] the Creek Nation, the United States, and the Life of James Moore by ...
May 5, 2019 · Like other white men among the Indians, Moore's story and that of his family is complex and difficult to unravel. Yet their history offers ...
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[PDF] In the late seventeenth century, a newly formed tribe
Sep 16, 2020 · After the American Revolution— which heralded the end of the “middle ground” that the Creeks manipulated so well to strengthen their nation and ...Missing: viewpoints | Show results with:viewpoints