Today in Labor History August 30, 1813: The Fort Mims massacre took place during the Creek War. The Red Sticks faction of the Creek Nation, under the command of head warriors Peter McQueen and William Weatherford, stormed Fort Mims and defeated the militia garrison. Afterward, they massacred nearly all the remaining Creek métis, white settlers, and militia at the fort. Their victory spread panic throughout the Southeast. Settlers fled. Thousands of whites fled their settlements for Mobile, which struggled to accommodate them. The Red Stick victory was one of the greatest Native American victories. They were facilitated by the fact that Federal troops were bogged down at the northern front of the War of 1812. However, local state militias, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson and allied with Cherokees, ultimately defeated the Red Sticks Creek faction at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, ending the Creek War.

The Fort Mims massacre is cited in Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell. Grandma Fontaine shares her memories of seeing her entire family murdered in the Creek uprising following the massacre as a lesson to Scarlett.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #NativeAmerican #indigenous #CreekNation #massacre #mobile #alabama #fiction #novel #writer #author #books @bookstadon

What businesses do you know that are owned by #creeknation or #yamacraw people? I live in Savannah, interested in supporting businesses run by the folks who were here first

"Many of these 'founding figures' of ours were also big land speculators."

"Thomas Jefferson wrote in his private diary that he had balanced the federal budget on the Indian land sales."

#RobertMiller and #RobbieEthridge discuss their book "#APromiseKept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v Oklahoma"

#MuscogeeNation #CreekNation #NativeAmericans #FirstNations #SettlerColonialism #IndigenousLands #SCOTUS #McGirtVOklahoma #books

https://scholarscircle.org/scholars-circle-case-analysis-in-the-book-a-promise-kept-the-muscogee-creek-nation-and-mcgirt-v-oklahoma-january-8-2023/

"Many of these 'founding figures' of ours were also big land speculators."

"Thomas Jefferson wrote in his private diary that he had balanced the federal budget on the Indian land sales."

#RobertMiller and #RobbieEthridge discuss their book "#APromise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v Oklahoma"

#MuscogeeNation #CreekNation #NativeAmericans #FirstNations #SettlerColonialism #IndigenousLands #SCOTUS #McGirtVOklahoma #books

https://scholarscircle.org/scholars-circle-case-analysis-in-the-book-a-promise-kept-the-muscogee-creek-nation-and-mcgirt-v-oklahoma-january-8-2023/

Kindness, faith, beauty …these things endure. To whom are we speaking when we pray? Ourselves? The Divine? Something we can’t define?

Eagle Poem, Joy Harjo

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46545/eagle-poem

This is another poem that is longer than a single screenshot; I’ve pasted it in its entirety via ALT text in the first image.

#poetry #Indigenous #JoyHarjo #beauty #kindness #faith #CreekNation #poem #Eagle #GoodNightAll

@GregAndree71 Joy Harjo — born in Tulsa, OK, she is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She earned her BA from the University of New Mexico & MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Harjo draws on First Nation storytelling/histories, feminist & social justice poetic traditions, & frequently incorporates indigenous myths, symbols, & values into her writing.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/141846/once-the-world-was-perfect

#firstPeople #creekNation #indigenous #poets #poetry #feminism

‘We hold the government to its word’: SCOTUS affirms Creek Nation reservation
https://nondoc.com/2020/07/09/scotus-affirms-creek-nation-reservation-mcgirt/

#oklahoma #creeknation