Warrior Nations Summary

"Examples of conflict litter the pages of our history". Warrior Nations : The United States and Indian Peoples by Roger L. Nichols is a book that sheds light on a fraction of the conflicts and hostilities that America as a country has participated in. However I believe that the book is incredibly important due to the fact that if focuses on conflicts that are not talked about in the same sense as say the World Wars. That is what I believe to be Nichols's reasoning/thesis in writing the book he did. He wanted to bring the conflicts between the early western settlers and the Indian nations up, and have them talked about. His audience is not just purely colleges, or academics. His writing, I believe, is meant to appeal to everyone that was willing to read. From my personal experience going through the public school system I can say that I was …show more content…
McGillivary was a Creek that was sent away by his father and educated in Charleston. Besides receiving a formal education he was also taught how to run a settled planation. This was the opposite of the traditional nomadic way of life the Creek nation practiced. McGillivary worked closely with the British when he returned to his mothers people in his adulthood and became a liaison between the Brits and the Creeks. McGillvary was able to gather a following of other Creeks that were more inclined to adopt a western lifestyle and eventually became a leader of the Creek Tribe using money supplied by the British to give gifts of members of the tribe. The divide that happened within the tribe between the members that wanted to hold onto tradition and the followers of McGillivary weekend the nation. While McGillivary was alive the relationship between the White men, not just the British, and the Creeks was relatively calm. However upon the death of McGillivary the hostilities between the more traditional Creeks and the settlers erupted