"Eating from the same pot" : African Creek slavery -- "Like a terrible fire on the prairie" : African Creeks and the Civil War -- "To do more than the government has seen fit to do" : reconstructing race in the Creek nation -- "Times seem to be getting very ticklish" : African Creeks and the Green Peach War -- "The strong vein of Negro blood" : Creek racial politics and citizenship -- "If I ain't one, you won't find another one here" : African Creek identity, allotment, and the Dawes Commission -- "A measure so insulting as this" : Jim Crow in the Indian country