11 Facts About Chilly McIntosh

Chilly McIntosh was an important figure in the history of the Creek Nation.

Meserve wrote that Chilly McIntosh lived for several years among the Cherokees.

The Lower Creeks, who became known as the Chilly McIntosh faction, began negotiating with the Federal government for their removal to Indian Territory.

Chilly attended an intertribal council meeting at Talequah in 1843, where Chief Roley McIntosh addressed the group of some three thousand warriors from eighteen tribes.

The result was a peace treaty, which Chilly McIntosh signed as a representative of the Creeks.

Roley Chilly McIntosh became chief of the Lower Creeks after the death of his half-brother.

Chilly McIntosh signed a treaty at Fort Gibson on November 11,1838, which adjusted the payments the Federal Government would make to reimburse the monetary losses of the Creeks during their removal.

Chilly McIntosh both signed a treaty on August 6,1856, defining specific lands that had been allotted to the Creeks that would be turned over to the Seminole Nation.

Chilly McIntosh, signed the treaty that formally allied the Creek Nation with the Confederate States of America.

Chilly McIntosh died October 5,1875 at his home in Fame, Indian Territory.

Chilly McIntosh was buried in the McIntosh Cemetery at Eufaula, Oklahoma.