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TNB->Creek: Some Creeks had owned slaves prior to 1865, and by treaty they were required to adopt them into the tribe
Posted on Thursday, October 20 @ 20:45:25 PDT (7554 reads)

AUTHOR: Kent Carter

Pleasant Porter was elected principal chief on September 5, 1899, on a platform of compromise with the federal government. In addition to dealing with tribal dissension over the agreement, Porter also had to try to resolve the controversial question of the rights of the freedmen.

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TNB->Creek: The Dawes Commission adopted a very narrow view of their powers
Posted on Thursday, October 20 @ 20:30:20 PDT (4564 reads)

AUTHOR: Kent Carter

On August 4, 1898, Aylesworth gave Isparhecher a signed receipt for twenty-five 1896 town census rolls. It had taken more than two years of requests and then threats of court action to get just one of the "official rolls." The ninety days that the Dawes Commission had to decide applications under the 1896 act had, of course, long since elapsed.

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TNB->Creek: The Creeks were overwhelmingly opposed to allotment
Posted on Thursday, October 20 @ 20:09:00 PDT (3463 reads)

AUTHOR: Kent Carter

The Creeks were overwhelmingly opposed to allotment or any change in the treaty of 1832, which had forced them to move to Indian Territory. One full-blood expressed a common sentiment when he told a Senate investigating committee that "I love my treaty, and I want my old treaty back."(21) He went on to say that "I will never stop asking for this treaty, the old treaty that our fathers made with the Government which gave us this land forever ... as long as the grass grows, water runs, and the sun rises."(22)

Note: Editor's Note: Does any of this remind you of the Cobell vs Norton case that is pending today? It doesn't look like much has changed in the last 100 years!

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TNB->Creek: The Dawes Commission and the Enrollment of the Creeks
Posted on Thursday, October 20 @ 19:43:31 PDT (5657 reads)

AUTHOR: Kent Carter

What can you do when you "discover" a continent, but there are already people living there? Europeans arriving in North America tried a number of approaches to solve what was often referred to as "the Indian Problem," depending on the relative military power of the natives and non-natives.

By the late 1870s, most tribes had been pushed onto reservations in areas that were generally undesirable and out of the path of settlement, but many friends of Native Americans became convinced that efforts to isolate and then civilize them were not working and that assimilating them into the general population would be a better policy.(1)

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TNB->Creek: Enrollment requirements for the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma
Posted on Sunday, April 03 @ 20:02:02 PDT (4725 reads)

The criteria for citizenship is that you must trace back to a direct ancestor listed on the 1906 Dawes Roll by issuance of birth and/or death certificates.

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TNB->Creek: A southeastern alliance known as the Creek Confederacy
Posted on Sunday, April 03 @ 17:22:44 PDT (4574 reads)

Prior to the early 18th Century, most of Georgia was home to American Indians belonging to a southeastern alliance known as the Creek Confederacy. Today's Creek Nation, also known as the Muskogee, were the major tribe in that alliance.

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TNB->Creek: Overview of the Creek Indian Tribe
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 04:10:36 PST (10333 reads)

The Creek Indians were a confederation of tribes that belonged primarily to the Muskhogean linguistic group, which also included the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The Muskogees were the dominant tribe of the confederacy, but all members eventually came to be known collectively as Creek Indians. Most of the Creeks descended from groups living in six towns: Cusseta, Coweta, Areka, Coosa, Hoithle Waule, and Tuckabatchee, all within the confines of the future Alabama and Georgia.

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TNB->Creek: Where to start in your search for Creek or Muskoke ancestors
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 00:02:21 PST (4492 reads)

The records relating to the Creek Indians are actually records of a number of different Indian tribes who belonged to confederacy of which the Muskoke or Creek (as they were called by the Europeans) were the principal power. The confederacy included various Muscogee people such as the Okfuskee, Otciapofa, Abikha, Okchai, Hilibi, Fus-hatchee, Tulsa, Coosa, as well as the Alabama, Natchez, Koasati and possibly some Shawnee who settled among them.

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