HS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Foreign Mission School, Lightning, Maple Sugar
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After the revolutionary war, many native people viewed accommodation as the best way to survive in the new nation five civilized tribes were: The five tribes were negotiating treaties with the new u. s. gov. Sent to charleston south carolina to be educated. Acquired land and became a slave owner with three plantations and enslaved sixty black people. He served as a cultural broker and represents creek interests. His many surviving letters give historians copious material with which to analyze him. Father a scottish trader and mother was a creek woman. In 1783, he refused to recognize the u. s. claims to land since indians were not involved. In 1784, he signs a treaty with spain at pensacola securing spanish trade and protection of creek lands. In 1790 , he led a delegation of creek chiefs to new york. Signed treaty of new york which was meant to guarantee creek territorial.
