Indian Fighter: Creek Indian War, 1813-1814 Student Assignment Before this lesson, have students complete the Student Reading and view the Video Clip from The History Channel documentary, Boone and Crockett: The Hunter Heroes, in the corresponding Students Section of this Web site. Classroom Activity Have your students read the following account of the Battle of Tallusahatchee from Crockett's 1834 autobiography, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee. In small groups, students should use Crockett's description to help them write an account of the battle from the perspective of a Creek Indian who survived the attack. View and print the corresponding Classroom Worksheet. "We pursued them until we got near the house, when we saw a squaw sitting in the door, and she placed her feet against the bow she had in her hand, and then took an arrow, and, raising her feet, she drew with all her might, and let fly at us, and she killed a man, whose name, I believe, was Moore. He was a lieutenant, and his death so enraged us all, that she was fired on, and had at least twenty balls blown through her. This was the first man I ever saw killed with a bow and arrow. We now shot them like dogs; and then set the house on fire, and burned it up with the forty-six warriors in it. I recollect seeing a boy who was shot down near the house. His arm and thigh was broken, and he was so near the burning house that the grease was stewing out of him. In this situation he was still trying to crawl along; but not a murmur escaped him, though he was only about twelve years old. So sullen is the Indian, when his dander is up, that he had sooner die than make a noise, or ask for quarters." Discussion Crockett wrote this account 20 years after he participated in the Battle of Tallusahatchee. Ask students to discuss Crockett's attitude looking back on the battle, using specific examples from the document. Ask students to compare the excerpt from Crockett's autobiography to the clip from The History Channel documentary. (Be sure students have viewed the Video Clip in the corresponding Students Section of this Web site. The documentary states: "Crockett is horrified by the whole episode and tortured by his participation in it.") Email the Experts After this lesson, ask students to submit questions that they would like to ask the experts. Their questions might be about a specific event, legend, or artifact. Before, during, or immediately after the live Webcast, Email the Experts the most thoughtful or most frequently asked questions. Extended Activities 1. Have students examine the provisions of the Treaty of Fort Jackson. Students should identify and explain what the Creeks gave up to the United States. 2. Ask students to create a map identifying the lands that the Creeks gave up as a result of the Treaty of Fort Jackson. Visit the Library of Congress's Indian Land Cessions to view related maps.		Standards TEKS for Social Studies: 6th Grade: 2A; 4C; 21A-E; 22A-E 7th Grade: 21A-G; 22A-D 8th Grade: 5D, G; 30A-F; 31A-D National Standards for U.S. History: Historical Thinking Standards 1A, B, E; 2A-E; 3A, B, E, G; 4A, C, D for Era 4, Standards 1A & 1B
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