List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Prologue: “A few of those belonging to the Coweta Town:” A Crisis in Creek Country
Introduction
Part I: The End of Creek Country
Chapter 1:“All the Red People Were Now the King’s People:” Creek Partisans Emerge During the American Revolution
Chapter 2: “No acts of a few or part can or does bend the whole:” Georgia Treaties and Creek Partisans
Chapter 3: “The Just retaliation upon the Georgians:” Partisan Creeks at War
Chapter 4: Like “mad people . . . running crazy:” Creek Country in Crisis
Part II: Building a Creek Nation
Chapter 5: “By the voice of the whole of the Upper Creeks and likewise the Cussetahs:” A Stronger Nationhood
Chapter 6: “I will try the experiment and I think it will succeed:” The Ascendancy of the National Council
Chapter 7: “To be of one mind and of one Government:” Legitimating a Creek Nation
Part III: The Fate of the Creek Nation
Chapter 8: “Retarded by the Demon of politiks:” The National Council Splintering
Chapter 9: “You who are afraid look to yourselves, you who are warriors, turn out:” The Red Stick War and the Future of the National Council
Epilogue: “The Government of the Creeks is not an ephemeral one:” The Creek Nation in the Removal Era
Bibliography