"This book contributes immensely to the field of ethnohistory in its expert examination of Creek politics in the early nineteenth century and its placement of the Creek Nation into a larger context of nation building."-Alex Colvin, Chronicles of Oklahoma “A stunning book about an indigenous people’s valiant attempts to stand up to American expansionism through an internal political revolution-an attempt that ultimately failed, not because the Creeks could not realize a new political order but because America would not let them. It is just brilliant.”-Robbie Ethridge, professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi and author of Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South “The subject is vital. Nationalism encompasses all people in the early nineteenth century. The Creek National Council has been a source of contention for a long time. [The book’s] bold thesis, advocating the efficacy of the Creek National Council, will generate productive debate for years to come.”-Steven C. Hahn, professor of history at St. Olaf College and author of The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670–1763
