Editing Muscogee (section)

=== Intermarriage ===
Many Muscogee Creek leaders, due to intermarriage, have British names: [[Alexander McGillivray]], [[Josiah Francis (Hillis Hadjo)|Josiah Francis]], [[William McIntosh]], [[Peter McQueen]], [[William Weatherford]], William Perryman, and others. These reflect Muscogee women having children with British colonists. For instance, [[Indian agent]] [[Benjamin Hawkins]] married a Muscogee woman.<ref name=Jackson>{{cite book
|title=Old Hickory's War. Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire
|first1=David S.
|last1=Heidler
|first2=Jeanne T.
|last2=Heidler
|edition=revised
|isbn=0807128678
|publisher=Stackpole Books
|year=2003}}</ref>{{rp|9}} In Muscogee culture, unmarried Muscogee women had great freedom over their own sexuality compared to European and European-American counterparts.<ref name=Saunt/>{{rp|161–162}} Under the customs of Muscogee [[matrilineal]] society, their children belonged to their mother's clan. With the exception of McGillivray, mixed-raced Muscogee people worked against Muscogee Creek interests, as they understood them{{clarify|date=August 2018}}; to the contrary, in many cases, they spearheaded resistance to settler encroachment on Muscogee Creek lands. That they usually spoke English as well as [[Muscogee language|Mvskoke]], and knew European customs as well, made them community leaders; they "dominated Muskogee politics".<ref name=Jackson />{{rp|236 n. 7}} As put by [[Claudio Saunt]]:

{{blockquote|These offspring of mixed marriages occupied a different position in the economy of the Deep South than did most Creeks and Seminoles. They worked as [[trading post|trader]]s and [[Factor (agent)|factor]]s. ... By virtue of their ancestry and upbringing, they had greater cultural, social, linguistic, and geographic ties to the colonial settlements, traveling periodically to Pensacola and the Georgia trading posts to unload their skins and pick up more trade goods.<ref name=Saunt />{{rp|54}}}}

As Andrew Frank writes, "Terms such as mixed-blood and half-breed, which imply racial categories and partial Indianness, betray the ways in which Native peoples determined kinship and identity in the eighteenth- and early-nineteen-century southeast."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Frank|first1=Andrew K.|title=Creeks and Southerners|date=2005|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|location=Lincoln|page=4|isbn=0803220162|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDtwYNCPe1kC&q=muscogee%20creek%20nation%20intermarriage%20British%20traders&pg=PA83|access-date=May 26, 2018}}</ref>