There was varied response to white encroachment. John Ross mixed blood convinced the Cherokee to adopt the strategy of accommodation which he felt would increase the chance of survival. The Creek, Seminole, and Shawnee forcibly resisted.
The Cherokee society shifted from traditional to more agrarian. Traditional men hunted while women engaged in farming. Their traditional matrilineal kinship system eroded where a person belonged to his or her mother’s clan. The U.S. system or patriarchy was adopted and diminished the clan’s role. There was an introduction of American – style slavery. By 1830 a few Cherokee owned plantations with hundreds of slaves. There were over 1500 slaves in the Cherokee Nation. They established a written language and formed a Republican government and in 1827 adopted a formal written constitution modeled on the U.S. Constitution. …show more content…
The Seminoles roots were in Africa and New World and Creek mingled with native Floridians and allied with “marooned communities”. After many battles with Americans, The Treaty of Moultrie Creek removed tribe from fertile land.
The Americanization of the Creeks was more prevalent in western Georgia among the Lower Creeks than in Upper Creek Towns, and came from internal and external processes. The US government's and Benjamin Hawkin's pressure on the Creeks to assimilate stood in contrast to the more natural blending of cultures that came from a long tradition of cohabitation and cultural appropriation, beginning with white traders in Indian country. Many of the most prominent Creek chiefs before the Creek War were "mixed-bloods" like William McGillivray and William McIntosh (who were on opposing sides of the Creek Civil
The Cherokee society shifted from traditional to more agrarian. Traditional men hunted while women engaged in farming. Their traditional matrilineal kinship system eroded where a person belonged to his or her mother’s clan. The U.S. system or patriarchy was adopted and diminished the clan’s role. There was an introduction of American – style slavery. By 1830 a few Cherokee owned plantations with hundreds of slaves. There were over 1500 slaves in the Cherokee Nation. They established a written language and formed a Republican government and in 1827 adopted a formal written constitution modeled on the U.S. Constitution. …show more content…
The Seminoles roots were in Africa and New World and Creek mingled with native Floridians and allied with “marooned communities”. After many battles with Americans, The Treaty of Moultrie Creek removed tribe from fertile land.
The Americanization of the Creeks was more prevalent in western Georgia among the Lower Creeks than in Upper Creek Towns, and came from internal and external processes. The US government's and Benjamin Hawkin's pressure on the Creeks to assimilate stood in contrast to the more natural blending of cultures that came from a long tradition of cohabitation and cultural appropriation, beginning with white traders in Indian country. Many of the most prominent Creek chiefs before the Creek War were "mixed-bloods" like William McGillivray and William McIntosh (who were on opposing sides of the Creek Civil