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Sehoy
Sehoy, or Sehoy I (died ca. 1730), was an 18th-century matriarch of the Muscogee Confederacy and a member of the Wind clan. She established a dynasty that became influential in the political and economic history of her nation and its relationship with the United States. Because inheritance and property within the confederacy were controlled matrilineally in early Muscogee society, her daughters and their descendants became influential in shaping tribal membership and relations with people they enslaved. In Muscogee culture, tribal affiliation was defined by clan membership and matrilineal descent. If the mother was part of a tribe, her children would also be part of that tribe, regardless of the father's ethnicity or citizenship. Some of her male descendants shaped policy with the United States through treaty-making and through tribal leadership. Biography Sehoy was a Muscogee woman of the Wind clan. Amos J. Wright, who analyzed for over two decades the genealogical history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia Durant
Sophia Durant (ca. 1752 – ca. 1813/1831) was a Koasati Native American plantation owner, who served as the speaker, interpreter, and translator for her brother, Alexander McGillivray, a leader in the Muscogee Confederacy. Durant was born to a mixed-race Native mother and Scottish father in the mid-18th century on Muscogee Confederacy lands in what is now Elmore County, Alabama. Taught reading and writing, she influenced the political and economic development of her people. After managing with her husband, probably a mixed-race Black/Native man, her father's estates in Savannah, Georgia, for three or four years, Durant returned to Muscogee territory and established the first cattle plantation in the Tensaw District of the nation. She also managed communal lands as part of her matriarchal inheritance at Hickory Ground and operated as a middleman between Anglo and Native traders. Although she was one of the largest slaveholders in the nation, she often treated her slaves as part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sehoy Weatherford
Sehoy, or Sehoy I (died ca. 1730), was an 18th-century matriarch of the Muscogee Confederacy and a member of the Wind clan. She established a dynasty that became influential in the political and economic history of her nation and its relationship with the United States. Because inheritance and property within the confederacy were controlled matrilineally in early Muscogee society, her daughters and their descendants became influential in shaping tribal membership and relations with people they enslaved. In Muscogee culture, tribal affiliation was defined by clan membership and matrilineal descent. If the mother was part of a tribe, her children would also be part of that tribe, regardless of the father's ethnicity or citizenship. Some of her male descendants shaped policy with the United States through treaty-making and through tribal leadership. Biography Sehoy was a Muscogee woman of the Wind clan. Amos J. Wright, who analyzed for over two decades the genealogical history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sehoy Marchand
Sehoy, or Sehoy I (died ca. 1730), was an 18th-century matriarch of the Muscogee Confederacy and a member of the Wind clan. She established a dynasty that became influential in the political and economic history of her nation and its relationship with the United States. Because inheritance and property within the confederacy were controlled matrilineally in early Muscogee society, her daughters and their descendants became influential in shaping tribal membership and relations with people they enslaved. In Muscogee culture, tribal affiliation was defined by clan membership and matrilineal descent. If the mother was part of a tribe, her children would also be part of that tribe, regardless of the father's ethnicity or citizenship. Some of her male descendants shaped policy with the United States through treaty-making and through tribal leadership. Biography Sehoy was a Muscogee woman of the Wind clan. Amos J. Wright, who analyzed for over two decades the genealogical history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Weatherford
William Weatherford, also known after his death as Red Eagle (ca. 1765 – March 24, 1824), was a Creek chief of the Upper Creek towns who led many of the Red Sticks actions in the Creek War (1813–1814) against Lower Creek towns and against allied forces of the United States. One of many mixed-race descendants of Southeast Indians who intermarried with European traders and later colonial settlers, William Weatherford was of mixed Creek, French, and Scots ancestry. He was raised as a Creek in the matrilineal nation and achieved his power in it, through his mother's prominent Wind Clan (as well as his father's trading connections). After the war, he rebuilt his wealth as a slaveholding planter in lower Monroe County, Alabama. Early life and education William Weatherford was born in 1781 (Griffith Jr. analysis), near the Upper Creek towns of Coosauda. Availableonline/ref>Griffith's analysis of Weatherford's date of birth is based on the death of his mother's first husband in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Shoes (Muskogean Chief)
Red Shoes (ca. 1720 - 1783) was a Muskogean leader of the Tuskegee people in the 18th century. He primarily lived in modern Alabama near Tuskegee at the forks of the Alabama River, but his influence extended well into modern Mississippi. Red Shoes was the son of a Koasati leader also known as Red Shoes and his wife Sehoy. Since lineage among the Muscogee Confederacy was traced matrilineally, Red Shoes, like his mother, was part of the Wind Clan. His parents also had a daughter together, who would have been his full sister. His half-sister, Sehoy Marchand, daughter of Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand was first married to Angus or August McPherson, with whom she had two children, Sehoy McPherson (Sehoy III) and Malcolm McPherson. She later married Lachlan McGillivray and had three more children, Alexander, Sophia Sophia means "wisdom" in Greek. It may refer to: *Sophia (wisdom) *Sophia (Gnosticism) *Sophia (given name) Places *Niulakita or Sophia, an island of Tuvalu * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand
Jean Baptiste Louis DeCourtel Marchand, aka Captain Francois Marchand de Courcelles, was an eighteenth century French officer that served in the French colonies in America, and died after a second tour or duty ending in 1734. Marchand fathered two children with Sehoy, a daughter of the matrilineal Wind Clan of the Creek Nation, during his time in Alabama: Chief Red Shoes (1720 d. 1784) and Sehoy II Marchand (1722-1785), herself mother of Sehoy III McPherson (with trader Malcolm McPherson) and Creek Chief Alexander McGillivray (with trader Lachlan McGillivray). Moreover William Weatherford, the notorious Red Eagle, and his half-brother the ''mestizo'' Charles Weatherford were the sons of Sehoy III. Captain Marchand was the French military commanding officer of the colonial trading post at Fort Toulouse Fort Toulouse and Fort Jackson are two forts that shared the same site at the fork of the Coosa River and the Tallapoosa River, near Wetumpka, Alabama. Fort Toulouse Fort T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander McGillivray
Alexander McGillivray, also known as ''Hoboi-Hili-Miko'' (December 15, 1750February 17, 1793), was a Muscogee (Creek) leader. The son of a Muscogee mother and a Scottish father, he had skills no other Creek of his day had: he was not only literate but educated, and he knew the "white" world and merchandise trading well. These gave him prestige, especially with European-Americans, who were glad to finally find a Creek leader they could talk to and deal with. (Prior to contact with Europeans, the Creek did not have leaders or rulers in the European sense.) He used his role as link between the two worlds to his advantage, not always fairly, and became the richest Creek of his time. McGillivray was literate and his "voluminous" correspondence has survived. In many cases his letters are the only source for events in his life, and they naturally present him in a very good light. Recent historians have taken issue with the heroic status he had in earlier histories. McGillivray's statu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Toulouse And Fort Jackson
Fort Toulouse and Fort Jackson are two forts that shared the same site at the fork of the Coosa River and the Tallapoosa River, near Wetumpka, Alabama. Fort Toulouse Fort Toulouse ( Muscogee: Franca choka chula), also called Fort des Alibamons and Fort Toulouse des Alibamons, is a historic fort near the city of Wetumpka, Alabama, United States, that is now maintained by the Alabama Historical Commission. The French founded the fort in 1717, naming it for Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse. In order to counter the growing influence of the British colonies of Georgia and Carolina, the government of French Louisiana erected a fort on the eastern border of the Louisiana Colony in what is now the state of Alabama. The fort was also referred to as the Post of the Alabama, named after the Alabama tribe of Upper Creek Indians, who resided just below the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers on the upper reaches of the Alabama River. The number of troops in ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Clerc Milfort
Jean-Antoine Le Clerc, also known as Louis Milfort, also spelled as Milford (February 2, 1752 - 1817/1820) was a French military officer and adventurer who led Creek Indian warriors during the American Revolutionary War as allies of the British. He emigrated to the British Colonies in North America in 1775. Beginning in 1776, he lived with the Creek Indians of the Upper Towns for about 20 years in frontier territory of present-day Alabama. He was befriended by the Tribal chief, chief Alexander McGillivray, who used him as his war chief in battles. Later, after his return to Paris, Milfort joined the French Sacred Society of Sophisians. Commissioned a general in the army, he was forced into retirement with a pension. Early life He was born as Jean-Antoine Le Clerc, but used several alternatives and aliases during his life, especially Jean LeClerc Milfort, and Louis Le Clerc Milfort. He was from Thin-le-Moutier, near Charleville-Mézières, Mézières, France. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muscogee Confederacy
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy ( in the Muscogee language), are a group of related indigenous (Native American) peoples of the Southeastern WoodlandsTranscribed documents Sequoyah Research Center and the American Native Press Archives in the . Their original homelands are in what now comprises southern , much of , western |
Tallapoosa River
The Tallapoosa River runs U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 27, 2011 from the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains in Georgia, United States, southward and westward into the Appalachian foothills in Alabama. It is formed by the confluence of McClendon Creek and Mud Creek in Paulding County, Georgia. Lake Martin at Dadeville, Alabama is a large and popular water recreation area formed by a dam on the river. The Tallapoosa joins the Coosa River about northeast of Montgomery near Wetumpka (in Elmore County) to form the Alabama River. There are four hydroelectric dams on the Tallapoosa: Yates, Thurlow, Martin and Harris dams. They are important sources of electricity generation for Alabama Power (a unit of the Southern Company) and recreation for the public. Description The Tallapoosa River, especially its lower course, was a major population center of the Creek Indians before the early 19th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter McQueen
Peter McQueen (c. 1780 – 1820) was a Creek chief, prophet, trader and warrior from ''Talisi'' ( Tallassee, among the Upper Towns in present-day Alabama.) He was one of the young men known as Red Sticks, who became a prophet for expulsion of the European Americans from Creek territory and a revival of traditional practices. The Red Sticks attracted a majority of the population in the Upper Towns in the early nineteenth century. From open conflict with the Lower Towns in the Creek War, the Red Sticks were drawn into conflict with the United States after being attacked by territorial militia. The Red Sticks were defeated by Colonel Andrew Jackson with state militias, Creek and Cherokee warriors at Horseshoe Bend in 1814. McQueen survived to retreat into Florida, along with other Creek warriors. There he joined the recently formed Seminole and continued resistance to United States forces during the First Seminole War. Early life and education Peter McQueen was the son of a hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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