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.
As someone who has never been to their home country and lives in the US, I absolutely hate that I've been cut off and deprived of my culture. I have no idea how anyone else in the diaspora thinks they aren't living in a different culture than the one they originated from. Capitalism and white supremacy will strip you of your birthright, insisting you conform to their belief system, while still considering you an other.
People who shit on their ethnicity as pick me diaspora are the worst. They get the wall, as far as I'm concerned.
