The last of the Muskogee resistance


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   The Muskogee or Creek Indians inhabited Alabama and present day Georgia and were the largest Indian-language group in the old South. They both allied and fought against the Anglo slave-holding settlers and their division was the basis of their defeat as is the basis of  book called "Sacred Revolt" by author Joel Martin. In this he basically gives the story of the Muskogee and their eventual final rebellion that is described by the author as a renewed vision and cultural movement based on a strong new religious discovery. These natives were inspired by the teachings of Tecumseh who traveled South to try to inspire a vision of pan-Indian unity that unfortunately for the creeks brought more disunity and warfare among themselves. this book examines how the Muskogee had to adapt to the changes brought by various missions, traders, squatters, and speculators on their historic ancestral lands and how it transformed their culture and unity. it only took a few generations after American Independence  to totally transform this region and displace the Muskogee from this area. The Red stick war is explained and how it developed leading up to the eventual displacement of all the various civilized tribes of the South east from a vengeful land-hungry nation long seeking to displace these people from their rich soils and well-stocked river streams. This native American resistance was bitterly crushed during the war of 1812 as Americans basically fought the last major campaign with a British allied native alliance of resistance. The fact that many Cherokee and Muskogee Indians fought fellow red men so their land and peoples cold be more quickly vanquished in the South East is the terrible tragedy of this for despite losing millions of acres of hunting ancestral land it was lower creeks that instigated this war by reporting of Muskogee purchases of arms and ammunition from Spanish territory. 

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