It is said that a large portion of the former Indian Reserve (which the USA respected for a time) was ceded to settlers just after the Creek war because the settlers had worked their way in somehow during or just after the war.
What if the land wasn't suddenly settled when the natives were weak from the Creek war and their own concurrent civil war? What if various white or mixed native-white people who had lived among the natives simply decided it was time to defect and return to being US citizens, but act like they had been all along so they wouldn't be accused of treason or internally deported to what is now Oklahoma?
It is said that when a child was lost to the natives, they rarely wanted to come back. Perhaps it was more fun to live in the forest and hunt and forage? So it wasn't misery. It may have been easier than working some menial job in, say, New Orleans when the captain and senior officers tried to go legit and told the crew they may fend for themselves.
It may have been occuring to some degree way before 1814 because even the earliest paintings and woodcuts of the Eastern natives don't look very much like they came from Siberia, like the Western and Alaskan natives do. Perhaps it started when the first epidemics from old world contact hit them. It may have occurred before 1492. Some sources say Columbus is said to have had an African pilot who seemed to have some idea of where he was going.
As pointed out before, the last native king of Tenerife had almost the same name as the tribe which once occupied the area of Miami and someone named a river in Florida "The Furthest Pilgrim" or Al-Aqsa Hajji. Sequoyah looked just like famously half-Lebanese financier Kevin O'Leary. The model for the Indian Head Cent looked no small amount like Jamie Farr of M.A.S.H.
There were Scotch and probably other European captains in the Barbary Pirates and the Ottoman Empire was known to have more European slaves than America had African slaves; perhaps if a master had a child with a European Ottoman slave, they would have been consigned to a life at sea, then going to the US after the Barbary Wars. Maybe they wound up passing for part native when it suited them. The Five Civilized Tribes also had a large number of free blacks among them and it is well known the pirates had been inclusive of blacks. The Five Tribes also kept African slaves so it is at least possible they would not have been much of a safe haven for escaped slaves which suggests the free blacks may have gotten there some other way.
As also pointed out before, the Five Civilized Tribes might have become so civilized because of access to educated slaves and the Ottoman Empire took European slaves until the early 20th Century, which is consistent with the natives having contact with the Barbary pirates or affiliates.
Then there's the fact that MTG looks like Muammar Qadaffi and Colin Kaepernick looks like Imane Khelif the olympic boxer.
Or, can it be the English brought in settlers to the Southeast but the settlers hoped to take the area for their own people instead of fighting for the king, so they went native to avoid impressment into the British army during the Revolution? Then bided their time because the US practiced a hands-off approach to managing them? Perhaps they eagerly took in their "lost children" from Barbary when the Barbary Wars and advancement in cannon and steamships suppressed the Barbary Pirates, because they hoped for the day when manpower might get them their own new world kingdom?
What if the British had revenge in mind when they pensioned a few hundred soldiers at the Battle of New Orleans after the war had ended, leading the local militia to create legends of their ability in the face of a larger, professional force? "For every man was half a horse and half an alligator." There's a chance the British had gotten wind of the Treaty of Ghent despite the official record.
Then, they bided their time while the South bided its time.
What if the land wasn't suddenly settled when the natives were weak from the Creek war and their own concurrent civil war? What if various white or mixed native-white people who had lived among the natives simply decided it was time to defect and return to being US citizens, but act like they had been all along so they wouldn't be accused of treason or internally deported to what is now Oklahoma?
It is said that when a child was lost to the natives, they rarely wanted to come back. Perhaps it was more fun to live in the forest and hunt and forage? So it wasn't misery. It may have been easier than working some menial job in, say, New Orleans when the captain and senior officers tried to go legit and told the crew they may fend for themselves.
It may have been occuring to some degree way before 1814 because even the earliest paintings and woodcuts of the Eastern natives don't look very much like they came from Siberia, like the Western and Alaskan natives do. Perhaps it started when the first epidemics from old world contact hit them. It may have occurred before 1492. Some sources say Columbus is said to have had an African pilot who seemed to have some idea of where he was going.
As pointed out before, the last native king of Tenerife had almost the same name as the tribe which once occupied the area of Miami and someone named a river in Florida "The Furthest Pilgrim" or Al-Aqsa Hajji. Sequoyah looked just like famously half-Lebanese financier Kevin O'Leary. The model for the Indian Head Cent looked no small amount like Jamie Farr of M.A.S.H.
There were Scotch and probably other European captains in the Barbary Pirates and the Ottoman Empire was known to have more European slaves than America had African slaves; perhaps if a master had a child with a European Ottoman slave, they would have been consigned to a life at sea, then going to the US after the Barbary Wars. Maybe they wound up passing for part native when it suited them. The Five Civilized Tribes also had a large number of free blacks among them and it is well known the pirates had been inclusive of blacks. The Five Tribes also kept African slaves so it is at least possible they would not have been much of a safe haven for escaped slaves which suggests the free blacks may have gotten there some other way.
As also pointed out before, the Five Civilized Tribes might have become so civilized because of access to educated slaves and the Ottoman Empire took European slaves until the early 20th Century, which is consistent with the natives having contact with the Barbary pirates or affiliates.
Then there's the fact that MTG looks like Muammar Qadaffi and Colin Kaepernick looks like Imane Khelif the olympic boxer.
Or, can it be the English brought in settlers to the Southeast but the settlers hoped to take the area for their own people instead of fighting for the king, so they went native to avoid impressment into the British army during the Revolution? Then bided their time because the US practiced a hands-off approach to managing them? Perhaps they eagerly took in their "lost children" from Barbary when the Barbary Wars and advancement in cannon and steamships suppressed the Barbary Pirates, because they hoped for the day when manpower might get them their own new world kingdom?
What if the British had revenge in mind when they pensioned a few hundred soldiers at the Battle of New Orleans after the war had ended, leading the local militia to create legends of their ability in the face of a larger, professional force? "For every man was half a horse and half an alligator." There's a chance the British had gotten wind of the Treaty of Ghent despite the official record.
Then, they bided their time while the South bided its time.
