Editing Muscogee (section)

===Muscogee diaspora (1814)===
[[Image:Jackson and Weatherford.jpg|thumb|Depiction of Red Eagle's surrender to Andrew Jackson after the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. Jackson was so impressed with Weatherford's boldness that he let him go.]]

In August 1814, the Red Sticks surrendered to Jackson at [[Wetumpka, Alabama|Wetumpka]] (near the present city of [[Montgomery, Alabama]]). On August 9, 1814, the Muscogee nation was forced to sign the [[Treaty of Fort Jackson]]. It ended the war and required the tribe to cede some {{convert|20|e6acres|km2}} of land—more than half of their ancestral territorial holdings—to the United States. Even those who had fought alongside Jackson were compelled to cede land, since Jackson held them responsible for allowing the Red Sticks to revolt. The state of Alabama was created largely from the Red Sticks' domain and was admitted to the United States in 1819.

{{blockquote|WHEREAS an unprovoked, inhuman, and sanguinary war, waged by the hostile Creeks against the United States, hath been repelled, prosecuted and determined, successfully, on the part of the said States, in conformity with principles of national justice and honorable warfare … And whereas consideration is due to the rectitude of proceeding dictated by instructions relating to the re-establishment of peace: Be it remembered, that prior to the conquest of that part of the Creek nation hostile to the United States, numberless aggressions had been committed against the peace, the property, and the lives of citizens of the United States ...|Treaty of Fort Jackson, 1814<ref name=treaty_1814>
{{Cite web
 | url = http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Treaties/TreatyWithTheCreeks1814.html
 | title = Treaty with The Creeks
 | access-date = October 4, 2009
 | author = Paul Burke
 | publisher = First People
}}
</ref>}}

Many Muscogee refused to surrender and escaped to Florida. They allied with other remnant tribes, becoming the [[Seminole]]. Muscogee were later involved on both sides of the [[Seminole War]]s in Florida.