20 Facts About Chitto Harjo

Chitto Harjo was a leader and orator among the traditionalists in the Muscogee Creek Nation in Indian Territory at the turn of the 20th century.

Chitto Harjo resisted changes which the US government and local leaders wanted to impose to achieve statehood for what became Oklahoma.

Chitto Harjo was the leader of the Crazy Snake Rebellion on March 25,1909 in Oklahoma.

Chitto Harjo was a leader in the Four Mothers Society, an intertribal religious movement.

Chitto Harjo had been a judge in the Okmulgee District and leader of Loyalists.

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Chitto Harjo led those Creek who opposed cultural assimilation and allotment.

Chitto Harjo took refuge with Daniel Bob, a Choctaw conservative leader, in McCurtain County, Oklahoma.

Chitto Harjo died in 1911, without being seen again by white enforcers.

Chitto Harjo told him, 'The land is all yours; the law is all yours'.

Chitto Harjo told him to come within his protecting arms and he said, 'If anything comes against you for your ruin I will stand by you and preserve you and defend you and protect you.

Chitto Harjo told me that as long as the sun shone and the sky is up yonder these agreements shall be kept.

Chitto Harjo said as long as the sun rises it shall last; as long as the waters run it shall last; as long as the grass grows it shall last.

Chitto Harjo said, 'Just as long as you see light here; just as long as you see this light glimmering over us, shall these agreements be kept and not until all these things shall cease and pass away shall our agreement pass away.

Chitto Harjo said to me that whoever did anything against me was doing it against him and against the agreement and he said if anyone attempted to do anything against me, to notify him for whatever was done against me was against him and therefore against the agreement.

Chitto Harjo said that he would send good men amongst us to teach us about his God and to treat them good for they were his representatives and to listen to them and if anyone attempted to molest us to, tell them and they would tell him.

Chitto Harjo told me that he would protect me in all ways; that he would take care of my people and look after them; that he would succor them if they needed succor and be their support at all times and I told him it was all right and he wrote the agreement that way.

Chitto Harjo said, 'It will be better for you to do as I want, for these old treaties cannot be kept any longer.

Chitto Harjo told me to come out here and have my laws back, and I came out here with my people and had my own laws and was living under them.

Chitto Harjo said that if anyone trespassed on my rights or questioned them to let him know and he would take care of them and protect them.

Chitto Harjo is the servant of the Government and he is sent here to, do that and he should not be permitted to do anything else.