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About Creek Sam
Creek Sam, Natchez Sun Chief; assisted in creating the Keetoowah Society under a constitution; raised and trained Redbird Smith in the traditional ways Redbird’s parents were Pig and Lizzie (Hilderbrand) Smith. Lizzie was Natchez. Creek Sam passed away in Notchietown, Oklahoma. His son was White Tobacco and succeeded Sam as the Natchez Sun Chief.
Family
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95386026/creek-sam shows these children:
- Charley Sam unknown–1942
- Watt Sam 1876–1944
- White Tobacco Sam 1880–1953
- Wakie Sam Noisey 1882 – unknown
Notes
From http://cherokeeregistry.com/cherokeestories/cherokee-genealogy/
The Old Settlers soon realized that the mixed-blood Cherokee who had arrived were beginning to take control. Two white missionaries, Evan and John Jones helped Cherokee full bloods Pig Smith and Creek Sam to form the traditionalist Keetoowah Society. As the American civil war approached the Keetoowah were allied with the missionaries against slavery and separated from the slaveholding mixed bloods.
From https://cherokee.org/About-The-Nation/History/Biographies/Redbird-S...
About the same time as the Treaty was signed, there was an important meeting of the Keetowahs in the Saline District near present-day Salina, Oklahoma. John Smith, one of Redbird’s sons, relayed this story as it had been told to him.
". . . All the people camped up there. All the old men were seers. They kept themselves clean with medicine. They could see a long ways ahead. The medicine men investigated the future of the Keetowahs. They saw that Pig Smith’s seed would be the leader of the Keetowahs in the time of their greatest trouble. Pig Smith saw that his life was short and his son was just a boy. He looked for a man to teach his son the ways of the Keetowah and to guide him spiritually. He decided on Creek Sam, a Notchee Indian. He told him he could leave his son in his care and teaching and that he would be his advisor even to the time of his (Pig Smith’s) grandchildren."
References
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95386026/creek-sam
- The Cherokee People: The Story of the Cherokees from Earliest Origins to ... By Thomas E. Mails GoogleBooks
- https://cherokeeregistry.com/cherokeestories/rootspersona-tree/cree...
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Keetoowah_Society
- http://www.natcheznation.com/About-Us.html
- https://www.scribd.com/document/240171068/Natchez-Great-Sun-Descend...
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Natchez_Tribe#_note-8
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Keetoowah_Band_of_Cherokee_Ind...
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Creek Sam's Timeline
| 1825 |
1825
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Alabama, United States
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| 1864 |
1864
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Illinois District, Oklahoma Nation
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| 1880 |
October 4, 1880
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Illinois District, Cherokee Nation
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| 1907 |
November 24, 1907
Age 82
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Braggs, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States
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Sam Cemetery, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, United States
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