Two (2) Items Related to Muscogee (Creek) Nation c.1903

United States, 1903. Very good. Toned, some minor worming. Sometime trimmed.. Two (2) items documenting the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's relation to the federal government at the turn of the century. The first item is a printed record of the allotment patent signed by P. Porter, Principal Chief of the Muskogee Nation, in 1903 (8.5" by 8"). The second is a printed record of the 1902-1905 supplemental agreements to the 1852 allotment of land from the federal government to the Muscogee Nation (9.25" by 7.75"). The Muscogee (Creek) Nation is the fourth largest federally recognized tribe in the United States. Originally located in Georgia, the Nation was forced out of their ancestral homelands in the 1830s following Jackon's Indian Removal Bill: "The overall effect of the Creek Trail of Tears was staggering. 21,792 Creeks lived in Georgia and Alabama in 1832. Twenty years after the 'removal' ended, only 13,537 Creeks remained in Oklahoma. Some 8,000 people apparently had died. Counted as a percentage of their population, the Creeks and related tribes suffered more deaths than the Cherokee in their own, far better-known trail of tears ... Today, their descendants remain a proud
and sovereign people" (nps.gov).