Posted on 01/23/2016 5:02:58 PM PST by cripplecreek
Can’t remember who it was, but someone sported a tagline for a long time around here that read something like, “Remember the River Raisin!”
Something is just not right with that photo....
We had a lot of that fighting down here in Alabama. I live about 10 miles from the Creek’s capital of Tuckabatchee, were Tecumseh spoke to the Creeks about forming a great Western Indian confederacy. Most of the tribal leaders rejected his appeals, and he went back North. He was said to have stated, on leaving, that he would bring a great disaster to the Creeks, and only a few days later, the famous New Madrid earthquake occurred. Many of the Creeks, especially the younger warriors, joined the Red Sticks on what they called, “the day Tecumseh caused the ground to shake”.
While the Kentucky militia went North to Michigan and eventually into Ontario with Harrison, most of the Tennessee militia went South against the Creeks. They were led by Andrew Jackson. He, along with two regiments of the US Army, and about 1200 Cherokee warriors allied with the Tennesseans, went south along the Tallapoosa river (about 2 miles as the crow flies from me), and decisively defeated the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend, and further South to just North of Montgomery at the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa Rivers where they formed the Alabama river, and built a fort, Fort Jackson, where the White Stick Creeks signed a peace treaty, which would eventually lead to the Trail of Tears and the expulsion of the Southeast Indians by Jackson when he became president!
After wintering at Force Jackson, he led his forces South to Mobile and then to New Orleans, and defeated the British there. His rise to the presidency started at those two battles.
Oh, by the way, the Red versus White Stick Creeks. At Tuckabatchee (which was an Indian city of about 10,000 souls) they had a bundle of sticks, at the council when Tecumseh spoke. Half were painted white, the other half red. At the end of all the talks, the chiefs were asked to choose a white stick for peace, or a red stick for war. The white sticks won, and that is why Tecumseh left in anger and made his curse. After the earthquake, many chiefs traded their whites sticks for red!
And the rest, as they say, is history!
That would be me.
And I wonder how long it will be before that truth is scrubbed.
That’s what I was thinking, but wasn’t sure.
:-)
Thanks for posting this. Man, I’m sick of the Trump wars..
Excellent.
Nice thread!
“At first I thought this would be about the Ohio Michigan border war over Toledo.”
The Toledo wars?
Did you know that the Michigan/Ohio border is contested to this day? Some MI maps list the border at the Maumee river!
Read about the Gnaddenhutten Massacre, where peaceful Christian Indians at a Moravian mission, mostly women and children, were lined up and their brains bashed out with mallets and see why the Indians had no love for the colonists, either.
And he has a great dog. Had.
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