Muscogee (Creek) materials, Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Culture:
Yuchi includes: Euchee
Muscogee includes: Muskogee, Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek
Natchez
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Language: English
Date: June 8, 1785; May 20, 1826; Undated;
Contributor: Elbert, Samuel, 1740-1788 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Sadiga, Sally
Subject: Georgia--History | Government relations | Boundaries | Linguistics | Land claims | Alabama--History
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Legal documents | Vocabularies
Extent: 3 items
Description: 1) Letter from Elbert to Major General Lachlan McIntosh regarding meeting to ascertain boundary between Creek Indians and Georgia. 2) Letter from Gallatin to Peter S. Du Ponceau sending transcribed vocabularies of Yuchi, Natchez, and Muscogee; also sending a Sioux grammar to Colonel Thomas L. McKenny, Office of Indian Affairs. 3) Legal brief by the plaintiff's attorney in a Creek Indian land dispute before the Supreme Court of Alabama-Sally Sadiga vs. Richard DeMarcus and Peter Hufman.
Collection: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection Mss.Ms.Coll.200