Yamasee Indians Yamasee Indians were Negroes, what were known afterwards as the fiercest of the Indians tribes of the South- the well known Yamasee Indians were Africans” Quote cited from the Congressional serial set United States Government Printing Office 57th Congress 1st Session. House of Representatives Document 179 Report of the Industrial Commission on Agriculture and Agricultural labor Washington Government printing Office Year 1901, page 824. Note to the reader…… Creek Freedmen Cow Tom negotiated and signed the 1866 Creek Treaty on behalf of the Creek Nation which granted citizenship to those Creeks of African descent (Freedmen). Cow Tom was also of Yamasee Indian descent. The Creek, Seminole, Yamacraw and Yamasee Indians were all tribes of the Creek Confederacy. Africans and Creeks, Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.
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