Creek Nation aka Muscogee Sprig of Liberty November 21, 1805 A deputation of Indian chiefs attended by Col. Benjamin Hawkins, agent for the Unites States, from the upper and lower Creek nations, are on their way to the city of Washington for the purpose of treating for the extension of the boundary line of the state of Georgia, to the Oakmulgee river. The upper Creeks are believed to be favorable to the cession, and the lower ones opposed to it, but the agent's opinion is that the land may be obtained. "It will afford pleasure to a benevolent mind, (says the Augusta Herald) to know that the efforts of Col. Hawkins to ameliorate the condition of the savages, and to bring them into something like a social state have been greatly successful and that they are almost daily, though slowly, making advances in civilization. There were in the Creek nation, when the agent left it, 12 looms employed, 3 of them, if we recollect aright were made by the Indians, and are worked by Indian women, who also spin the cotton which they weave. Ploughs and hoes are now also in general use among them, they are becoming attached to property, and being acquainted with the comforts and advantages of agricultural improvements, they are losing very considerably, that predeliction for the chase and hunting life, which almost universaly characterises savage nations. The agent has introduced among them weights and measures, and made many of them acquainted with figures, so that they are able to weight out their own articles for sale, and to calculate the amount with great accuracy; and the advantages they discover to arise from these glimmerings of science, is gradually exciting to desire to extend their knowledge and will doubtless prepare the way for the establishment of schools among them, and will create an order for future improvements. From the advances already made in the arts of civil life, there can be little doubt that a foundation is laid for an entire change in the disposition and habit of those tribes." [Submitted by Nancy Piper] Read the history of the Oklahoma Muscogee Nation

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