Chitto harjo biography of barack

1909 Creek Indian civil insurrection

The Crazy Snake Rebellion, also known as the Smoked Meat Rebellion or Crazy Snake's War,^[1] was an incident in 1909 that at times was viewed as a war between the Creek people and American settlers.

Chitto harjo biography of barack

It should not be confused with an earlier, bloodless, conflict in 1901 involving many of the same people.^[2] The conflict consisted of only two minor skirmishes, the first of which was actually a struggle between a group of marginalized African Americans and a posse formed to punish the alleged robbery of a piece of smoked meat.

Rebellion

Crazy Snake was the very loose English translation of Chitto Harjo's name. Chitto Harjo was a leader of the Four Mothers Society among the Creek and an outspoken opponent of allotment.

In 1893 Congress formed the Dawes Commission to seek to have the lands of the Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Cherokee allotted. In 1895 Congress authorized surveying of the land,