Creek Indians

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Research notes and correspondence related to J. D. Barron's research on native American place names in Alabama.

Scope and Contents This collection comprises ten manuscript letters written between 1831 and 1837 from Claiborne and Mobile, Alabama, documenting the experiences of several members of the Cooper family as they emigrated within the region. The letters provide detailed accounts of Southern culture, daily life, and social conditions in early nineteenth-century Alabama. Of particular significance are firsthand observations of the removal of the Creek Native Americans, offering insight into the effects of federal...

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Documents pertaining to the sale of lands belonging to Ko Yoo Quae, Alpetter Hadjo, Co Choc O Nee, Coch Che Yo Ho Lo, and Pelis-hart-ke - all Creek Indians living in Alabama between 1833 and 1841.

Scope and Contents This presidential land patent formalizes the sale of a tract of Alabama land formerly owned by a Creek Indian named No-cose-yoholo, who acquired the land following the Treaty of 1832 between the U.S. government and the Creek people. The document records the transfer of No-cose-yoholo's land to Daniel McDougald, an action approved by President Martin Van Buren and finalized in 1843. It bears the secretarial signature of President John Tyler, signed by his son Robert, and the Recorder of the...

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Materials this Tuscaloosa native and history professor at The University of Alabama created and collected.

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November 1808 letter to Colonel Benjamin Hawkins, U.S. agent to the Creek Indians in Alabama and Georgia, regarding a claim for compensation for a stolen horse.

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A printed transcript of a letter from Neel to the U.S. Secretary of War, describing a battle with Creek Indians near the Black Warrior River.

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Contains a copy of "The Stiggins Manuscript", which was copied from the original historical narrative in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Collection, 1901. This is a narrative of the genealogical traditions and down fall of the Ispocoga or Creek Indians, written by one of its members of the tribe. Also contains letters of correspondence and a copy of Alabama Highways vol. VII, July - August 1933.

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Correspondence and other materials regarding the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and Creek Indian leader William Weatherford (Red Eagle)

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Watercolor sketch of a Creek Indian painted by Edward Woolf