This Moment in Black History Education: Columbus and the Valley Area

Johnnie Warner, Contributor

/Hammurabi Black History Institute, Columbus GA

In a Black American perspective, the statue represents the genocide of the Black Natives who once inhabited the region now known as Columbus, Georgia, a state that was colonized in 1732. 

The Treaty of Indian Springs, signed February 12, 1825, was an agreement between the United States and a minority fraction of the Creek Nation.

NEW GEORGIA ENCYCLOPEDIA: William McIntosh was a controversial chief of the Lower Creeks in early-nineteenth-century Georgia. His general support of the United States and its efforts to obtain cessions of Creek territory alienated him from many Creeks who opposed white encroachment on Indian land. He supported General Andrew Jackson in the Creek War of 1813-14, also known as the Red Stick War, which was part of the larger War of 1812 (1812-15), and in the First Seminole War (1817-18). His participation in the drafting and signing of the Treaty of Indian Springs of 1825 led to his execution in April 30, 1825 by a contingent of Upper Creeks led by Chief Menawa.

In 1828, Columbus was established as a Trading Post by the Georgia Legislature.

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