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