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Laws of the Creek Nation
ISBN: 9780820360973
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Georgia Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Native American and Indigenous Studies; U.S. History; Law;

Laws of the Creek Nation is a transcript of the list of laws made by the Creek National Council. This list was compiled in 1825 by the clerk of council, Chilly McIntosh, for Georgia governor George Troup.

The Georgia Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

ANTONIO J. WARING (1915-64) was a pediatrician and nonprofessional archaeologist of prehistoric southeastern Georgia. His research and publications on subjects such as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex continue to inform Georgia archeologists. The archaeological laboratory at the University of West Georgia was named after him in 1992.


SARAH DEER (Muscogee [Creek] Nation) is a University Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas and chief justice for the Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals. In addition to coauthoring four textbooks on tribal law, she is the author of The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America.