Editing Muscogee (section)

===Removal (1834)===
In the aftermath of the [[Treaty of Fort Jackson]] and the [[Treaty of Washington (1826)]], the Muscogee were confined to a small strip of land in present-day east central [[Alabama]].

Andrew Jackson was inaugurated president of the United States in 1829, and with his inauguration the government stance toward Indians turned harsher.<ref name="jackson1829-5">
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</ref> Jackson abandoned the policy of his predecessors of treating different Indian groups as separate nations.<ref name="jackson1829-5"/> Instead, he aggressively pursued plans to move all Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River to Oklahoma.<ref name="jackson1829-5"/>

{{blockquote|Friends and Brothers – By permission of the Great Spirit above, and the voice of the people, I have been made President of the United States, and now speak to you as your Father and friend, and request you to listen. Your warriors have known me long You know I love my white and red children, and always speak with a straight, and not with a forked tongue; that I have always told you the truth ... Where you now are, you and my white children are too near to each other to live in harmony and peace. Your game is destroyed, and many of your people will not work and till the earth. Beyond the great River Mississippi, where a part of your nation has gone, your Father has provided a country large enough for all of you, and he advises you to remove to it. There your white brothers will not trouble you; they will have no claim to the land, and you can live upon it you and all your children, as long as the grass grows or the water runs, in peace and plenty. It will be yours forever. For the improvements in the country where you now live, and for all the stock which you cannot take with you, your Father will pay you a fair price ...|President Andrew Jackson addressing the Creeks, 1829<ref name="jackson1829-5"/>}}

At Jackson's request, the United States Congress opened a fierce debate on an Indian Removal Bill.<ref name="jackson1829-5"/> In the end, the bill passed, but the vote was close. The Senate passed the measure 28 to 19, while in the House it squeaked by, 102 to 97. Jackson signed the legislation into law June 30, 1830.<ref name="jackson1829-5"/>

Following the [[Indian Removal Act]], in 1832 the Creek National Council signed the [[Treaty of Cusseta]], ceding their remaining lands east of the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]] to the U.S., and accepting relocation to the [[Indian Territory]]. Most Muscogee were removed to Indian Territory during the [[Trail of Tears]] in 1834, with additional removals following the [[Creek War of 1836]], although some remained behind.

{{blockquote|By 1836, when extensive Creek removal was underway, Eneah Emathala emerged as leader of the Lower Creeks ... their desire was only to be left alone in their homeland ... Gen. Winfield Scott was ordered to capture Eneah Emathala ... Captured with Emathala were some one thousand other person ... their [racial] colors were black, red, and white ...|Burt & Ferguson- ''Indians of the Southeast: Then and Now'' }}