Tecumseh at Tukabatchee Bicentennial Day
WHEREAS On this bend of the Tallapoosa River in present day Tallassee, Alabama, lay one of the ancient towns of the Muscogee Creek People, called Tukabatchee; and
WHEREAS Tukabatchee is one of the original four mother towns of the old Creek Confederacy; and
WHEREAS Tukabatchee served as one of the Creek Confederacy capitals in the Upper Creek region on the Tallapoosa River; and
WHEREAS In the fall of 1811, Tecumseh of Creek and Shawnee ancestry came here to his mother’s town to persuade the Nation’s warriors to adopt his ideas of rejection of the presence of American intruders and return to traditional ways; and
WHEREAS Tecumseh’s visit to Tukabatchee represents the beginning of a series of events that resulted in the Creek War; and
WHEREAS Tecumseh addressed the Nation gathered here and gave his war speech
where he persuaded some Upper Creek warriors to take action against the intruders; and
WHEREAS The Creek Confederacy was not totally unified in this nativistic movement
which led to the Creeks fighting each other causing the Creek Civil War; and
WHEREAS If not for this division among the Creeks, the outcome of the Creek War could have been vastly different at the battle of the Horseshoe Bend, and the Creek Confederacy, already a powerful force, could have changed the course of American History; and
WHEREAS The Creek Nation of Oklahoma and its representatives are celebrating the Bicentennial of Tecumseh at Tukabatcheee in Tallassee, Alabama on October 1, 2011.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert Bentley, Governor of Alabama, do hereby do proclaim the
October 1, 2011
“Tecumseh at Tukabatchee Bicentennial Day”
in Alabama and extend honorable and warm greetings and hospitality to the Creek Nation of Oklahoma.
Given Under My Hand and the Great Seal of the Office of the Governor at the State Capitol in the City of Montgomery on the 27th day of September 2011.
Governor Robert Bentley
Provided by the Office of the Governor of Alabama | governor.alabama.gov