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.
The Chinese diaspora, despite being cringe in many, many ways, is somehow above average as far as diasporas are concerned. A lot of it has to be with the unmistakable rise of China and decline of the US, so people are less reluctant to completely sever ties and act like some shameless banana. Even ABCs know what's up.
In my experience, most first-generation diaspora cherrypick both the motherland and the current country they live in. It's all about following tradition and not forgetting your roots unless they no longer benefit from said tradition and roots then it's suddenly all about Americanizing and "doing as the Romans do in Rome." There's that joke about getting their sons married in a traditional Western wedding and their daughters in a traditional Chinese wedding just so the parents don't have to spend money on either weddings lol
