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Alexander McGillivary
A Creek Indian leader in the 1780s and 1790s, Alexander McGillivray was a Southeastern Indian with a Native American mother and European father. He played off European powers he was born in day Montgomery, Alabama. -
Indian Removal(Choctow)
under threat of invasion by the U.S. Army, the Choctaw became the first nation to be expelled from its land altogether. They made the journey to Indian territory on foot some bound in chains and marched double file one historian writes and without any food, supplies or other help from the government. Thousands of people died along the way. It was, one Choctaw leader told an Alabama newspaper, a “trail of tears and death.” -
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Trail of Tears
In 1836, the federal government drove the Creeks from their land for the last time: 3,500 of the 15,000 Creeks who set out for Oklahoma did not survive the trip. The Cherokee people were divided: What was the best way to handle the government’s determination to get its hands on their territory? Some wanted to stay and fight. Others thought it was more pragmatic to agree to leave in exchange for money and other concessions. In 1835, a few self-appointed representatives of the Cherokee nation neg -
sequoyah
Sequoyah, is the great Cherokee Indian that gave his people a gift that will endure forever. He created a writing system - so that the greatness of the Cherokee Nation will live forever.
Sequoyah was born in 1776 near the town of Tuskeegee, Tennessee, near Chote. Sequoyah was a mixed breed Cherokee. His mother Wut-teh was a full blood Cherokee, the daughter of a Cherokee Chief. He was usually known to his white contemporaries as George Guess, or Gist (because, it is claimed, he was fathered by
