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.
I wonder why no other ethnic group that was a historical or current victim of genocide has anything that could even be mildly construed in bad faith as being racist against them be subjected to gestapo-level policing and enforcement, and why we don’t constantly have site-wide discussions about how to protect them and validate their feelings. Oh wait, I remember, it’s because most of this site are racist crackers who don’t consider nonwhites human.
