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- Sep 17, 2011
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Over several posts in the following days, I'll detail the campaign, for simplicity's sake Opothleyoholo will be simply Chief O
At the beginning of the war the CSA sent Albert Pike to negotiate alliances with the Indian Nations in the Indian Territory, as many were slaveholding tribes and obviously had a checkered history in relations with the USA he was very successful. By October Pike returned with treaties he had obtained, He had got the Creek Nation on July 10 1861, the Choctaws and Chickasaws on July 12, Seminoles on Aug 1st, Shawnees, Delaware, Wichita, and affiliated tribes in the leased territory Aug 12th, the Comanches of the prairie on Aug 12th, The Great Osages on Oct 2nd, the Seneca's and Shawnees of the Neosho agency Oct 4th, the Quapaw's Oct 4th, and finally the Cherokees Oct 7th
Chief O was a Creek chief in the minority of dissenters, many tribes already had divisions before the war between mixed/pure bloods or treaty/non treaty factions. He was cautioned early on to remain neutral by John Ross and the Cherokee, which he apparently misread as support from the Cherokee, when Ross and the Cherokee signed with the CSA, Chief O realized he was in a precarious position. With his support failing amongst the tribes he calls to the free blacks and Indian slaves to join him and he would provide freedom and protection, and some did with some traitors of the other nations.
Chief O had reached out to the Union for help and they told him if he reached Kansas, aid and help would be provided, so this how the campaign begins with the 80 yr old chief taking the treasury he has in a barrel up to the hills to bury, then tradition has he had the slave killed to ensure secrecy. Then he and his followers abandon his plantation to start a westward trek.
At the beginning of the war the CSA sent Albert Pike to negotiate alliances with the Indian Nations in the Indian Territory, as many were slaveholding tribes and obviously had a checkered history in relations with the USA he was very successful. By October Pike returned with treaties he had obtained, He had got the Creek Nation on July 10 1861, the Choctaws and Chickasaws on July 12, Seminoles on Aug 1st, Shawnees, Delaware, Wichita, and affiliated tribes in the leased territory Aug 12th, the Comanches of the prairie on Aug 12th, The Great Osages on Oct 2nd, the Seneca's and Shawnees of the Neosho agency Oct 4th, the Quapaw's Oct 4th, and finally the Cherokees Oct 7th
Chief O was a Creek chief in the minority of dissenters, many tribes already had divisions before the war between mixed/pure bloods or treaty/non treaty factions. He was cautioned early on to remain neutral by John Ross and the Cherokee, which he apparently misread as support from the Cherokee, when Ross and the Cherokee signed with the CSA, Chief O realized he was in a precarious position. With his support failing amongst the tribes he calls to the free blacks and Indian slaves to join him and he would provide freedom and protection, and some did with some traitors of the other nations.
Chief O had reached out to the Union for help and they told him if he reached Kansas, aid and help would be provided, so this how the campaign begins with the 80 yr old chief taking the treasury he has in a barrel up to the hills to bury, then tradition has he had the slave killed to ensure secrecy. Then he and his followers abandon his plantation to start a westward trek.
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