The Archivray Moment Essay

I have chosen to use "The Creek Documents" as my primary source for "The McGillivray Moment". Historical American-Indian communities stayed for the most part as oral cultures. Many scholars of American and Indian history have restructured the Indian past by utulizing documents written from indian oral traditions and outsiders. Having to render documents written by outsiders is a process that is laden with problems. The outside spectators almost always could not comprehend what they were seeing. They infusesd their testimonies with their own biases and misunderstandings about Indians. The indians voice in the testimonies were usually absent or subdued in the documents; that is one of the reasons why historic indian voices and decisions are hard to re-form and explain. McGillivray's letters are an amazing exclusion to

The focal point of the meeting was to negotiate a peace treaty between the Americans and Indians that would give the Creeks the land that was already theirs; It also served to end the gruesome war from the South-west borderline. The treaty was the first treaty between Americans and indians that did not happen on indian controlled soil. The Treaty of New York was signed in 1790; there was a failed treaty attempt between the U.S and Creeks at "Rock Landing, Georgia", in 1789. It was a 3 week negotiation that seemed to have never happened; it was almost completely unrecorded except for the final declarations. McGillivray expressed his gripes in a letter that was sent to the U.S commissioners. Washington issued a distiguished emissary, Colonel Marinus Willett, over to McGillvray to persuade him to travel to New York and the U.S. capital to manage a treaty(of New York) with only Washington and Henry