Creek Indian History : A Historical Narrative of the Genealogies, Traditions and Downfall of the Ispocoga or Creek Indian Tribe of Indians by One of the Tribe

by Brown, Virginia Pounds

• ISBN13: 9780942301151
• ISBN10: 0942301153
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

Based on a handwritten manuscript more than 150 years old, Creek Indian History is a primary resource containing accounts of significant Indian/white encounters in early Alabama history -- from the Indian perspective. Written in the early 1800s by George Stiggins, the son of a Creek mother and a white father, this volume recounts the origins and ways of life of the tribes of the Creek Confederacy and their viewpoints on such key events of the Creek War as Burnt Corn and Fort Mims. Stiggins was William Weatherford's brother-in-law, and thus his explanation of Weatherford's controversial role in the Creek War has special value. William Wyman's notes and introduction put the Stiggins account in historical perspective and traces its circuitous route to publication.

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction	7	(6)
Wyman's Introduction	13	(8)
A Historical Narrative	21	(2)
Stiggins's Preface	23	(4)
Tribes and Government	27	(24)
Manners and Customs	51	(18)
Creek-White Politics	69	(14)
Tecumseh and the Age of Prophets	83	(14)
The Creek War	97	(40)
Wyman's and Editor's Notes	137	(29)
Works Cited in Wyman's Notes	166	(5)
Index	171