Nation to Nation by Suzan Shown Harjo

Author:Suzan Shown Harjo [Harjo, Suzan Shown]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58834-479-3
Publisher: Random House Publisher Services
Published: 2014-09-30T04:00:00+00:00

Muscogee bandolier bag, ca. 1814. Alabama. Wool fabric and tassels, silk fabric, dye, glass beads, cotton thread. 73 × 38.5 cm. National Museum of the American Indian 24/4150

This bandolier bag is said to have been captured at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

This map shows the approximate locations of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation before and after its population was removed from the Southeast to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), and it traces the three primary routes along which the removal took place. Between 1827 and 1838, about nineteen thousand Muscogee people were forced to leave their homeland. Four thousand more left voluntarily or were transported as prisoners. Adapted from Christopher D. Haveman, “The Removal of the Creek Indians, 1825–1838,” PhD diss., Auburn University, 2009. Map by Gene Thorp/Cartographic Concepts, Inc. © Smithsonian Institution

Muscogee ceremonial leaders recite the history that their ancestors “carried the Fires on [their] backs” to Indian Territory and arranged the ceremonial grounds there in the same proximity to one another as they had been in the Old Fields. The Nuyakv Ground, named in honor of the Treaty of New York, was reestablished in Indian Territory, near Okemah and Okmulgee, the new capital of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

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