The Treaty of Fort Jackson (also known as the Treaty with the Creeks) was signed on this day in 1814 at Fort Jackson in Alabama. The treaty was agreed upon in the aftermath of the defeat of Red Stick (Upper Creek) resistance by U.S. forces at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
The treaty was the "largest single Indian cession of southern American land", according to historian Michael Rogin - around 23 million acres in Alabama and Georgia. The U.S. forces won with the battle with the help of allied Cherokee and Lower Creek forces friendly to the American side.
The terms of various treaties with the Creek nation would go on to be consistently violated by Americans colonizing the south.
Really random but the group Katseye always bugs me with how their label markets them as “global.” You’ve got three Americans, one European, and two Asians. And I guess they really stretch the Americans backgrounds to claim they represent 5/6 continents lol
I’m always skeptical when companies try to market diaspora as if they represent natives of the culture because there’s always a big divide between them and natives.
