Part 10 Native American Info

"The Creek"

The "Creek Nation" was originally located in the Southeastern United States,and was a union made up of several smaller tribes who joined together and formed a confederacy.
The Creeks are one of the tribes included in what people refer to as "The Five Civilized Tribes".
They were also among the Tribes that were "relocated" west of the Mississippi River in the early to mid 1800's.
The "Creek Nation of Oklahoma" is made up of decendants of those members of the tribe that survived the journey west.
The "Eastern" Creek are surviving members that stayed in the east and either hid or were overlooked by the government.

There is a list of the different "Tribes" of the Creek Nation available online.

http://ngeorgia.com/history/creek.html   is concerned with the Creek Nation in Georgia

http://www.muscogeenation-nsn.gov/   is concerned with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma

Quanah Parker

Quanah Parker was the last Chief of the Commanches and never lost a battle to the white man. His tribe roamed over the area where Pampas stands.
He was never captured by the Army, but decided to surrender and lead his tribe into the white man's culture, only when he saw that there was no alternative.
His was the last tribe in the Staked Plains to come into the reservation system.

Quanah, meaning "Fragrant," was born about1850, son of Comanche Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white girl taken captive during the 1836 raid on Parker's Fort, Texas.
Cynthia Ann Parker was recaptured, along with her daughter, during an 1860 raid on the Pease River in northwest Texas. She had spent 24 years among the Comanche, however, and thus never readjusted to living with the whites again.

She died in Anderson County, Texas, in 1864 shortly after the death of her daughter, Prairie Flower. Ironically, Cynthia Ann's son,Quanah, would adjust remarkably well to living among the white men. But first he would lead a bloody war against them.

"The white man made us many promises,more than I can remember,but they never kept but one.They promised to take our land,and they took it".

Chief Red Cloud--Dakota Sioux

Red Cloud did not come from a ruling family.He became Chief by virtue of his forceful character and his heroic deeds.
As a member of the Snake Clan,and because of his many outstanding virtues,he became a Principal Chief of the Oglala Teton Sioux,the largest band in the Sioux nation.He was probably the most famous and powerful chief in the history of the tribe.

Red Cloud became bitter enemies with the white man because he could see the white man's disregard for the Native American and his way of life.Red Cloud could envision nothing but disaster and destruction for his people if white settlers were allowed access to his people's lands.

His father died of Alcholism,introduced to the tribes by early settlers.This personal disaster showed Red Cloud clearly the harm done to his people by the white man.

He was successful in stopping the occupation of Fort Phil Kearney,along the Piney Creek near the Bighorn Mountains,and kept the Bozeman Trail to Montana closed for several years.

At Fort Laramie on Nov.6,1868,Red Cloud finally signed an agreement for peace,but not until Fort Phil Kearney was abandononed.This kept his people free of the invaders FOR THE TIME BEING.

After signing the treaty,Red Cloud never took to the Warpath again.He had won one victory for his people,but knew he could not win another.

He died a feeble and partially blind man on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on Dec.10,1909.

CHIEF RED CLOUD ARTIST JAMES L. VLASATY