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William McIntosh (c. 1775 – April 30, 1825), [1] also known as Tustunnuggee Hutke (White Warrior), was one of the most prominent chiefs of the Muscogee Creek Nation between the turn of the 19th-century and his execution in 1825. He was a chief of Coweta tribal town and commander of a mounted police force. He became a large-scale planter ...
William McIntosh was a controversial chief of the Lower Creeks in early-nineteenth-century Georgia. His general support of the United States and its efforts to obtain cessions of Creek territory alienated him from many Creeks who opposed white encroachment on Indian land.
William McIntosh was a controversial chief of the Lower Creeks in early-nineteenth-century Georgia. His general support of the United States and its efforts to obtain cessions of Creek territory alienated him from many Creeks who opposed white encroachment on Indian land.
Creek Indian Jay McGirt discusses William McIntosh, son of a Creek woman and a Scotsman, who fought with the Americans during the War of 1812 and was given the rank of general. On February 12, 1825, Chief McIntosh signed a treaty at Indian Springs selling the remaining Creek land in Georgia.
William McIntosh tried to walk the delicate balance between the world of the European colonists and the Native Americans. He was the son of a Creek woman and a Scotsman. Chief McIntosh fought with the Americans during the War of 1812 and was given the rank of general.
A Lower Creek Indian chief, William McIntosh was born to a Scottish father and Creek mother and was fluent in the culture and language of both Creek and white societies. He supported the United States in its efforts to obtain Creek land, and his role in the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs was considered a betrayal by Creeks.
William McIntosh (ca. 1775-1825) was a controversial nineteenth-century Creek Indian leader. A planter who owned enslaved Africans, McIntosh opposed the Red Stick majority when civil war divided the Creeks during the War of 1812.
Portrait of William McIntosh, Chief of the Lower Creek Indians in Georgia, is attributed to itinerant portrait painter Nathan Negus (1801–1825) and his brother Joseph.
“Billie Jane McIntosh combines accuracy of history and immediacy of fiction to relate the life of her ancestor, a warrior, diplomat, and selfless leader of his Native nation. In that bitter time...
In the late hours of April 30th, 1825, Chief McIntosh found himself the target of an enraged mob of Law Menders. Dragged from his residence, he faced a violent demise, succumbing to a barrage of gunshots and stabbings orchestrated by his own tribesmen.