Isparhecher led a group that supported traditional ways and was opposed to the assimilation encouraged by Chief Samuel Checote and others.
21 Facts About Isparhecher
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Isparhecher was born in Alabama in 1829 to full-blood Creek parents, Yar-de-ka Tus-tan-nug-ga and his wife Ke-char-te.
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Isparhecher's family settled on a farm at Cussetah town, about 7 miles southeast of what developed as Okmulgee, Oklahoma.
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Isparhecher is listed on the Dawes Rolls as "Creek by Blood" with a "Full" blood quantum.
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Sometime prior to the Civil War, Isparhecher married a woman named Polikissut.
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Isparhecher was serving as the Creek delegate to Congress, under the Chief Joseph Perryman administration.
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Isparhecher enlisted for a one-year term in the Confederate Army on August 17,1861, becoming 4th Sergeant in Company K of the 1st Regiment of Creek Mounted Volunteers.
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Isparhecher noticed that the Union side was more welcoming and shifted his allegiance.
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Isparhecher went to Fort Gibson, then controlled by the Union Army, where he volunteered to join Company K in the 1st Regiment of Indian Home Guards, Kansas Infantry, in the Union Army.
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Isparhecher missed only one muster roll until he was honorably discharged at Fort Gibson on May 31,1865.
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Isparhecher was in combat at the battle on Barren Fork and was promoted to Sergeant on March 12,1864.
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Isparhecher returned to the Creek nation to resume civilian life as a farmer.
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Isparhecher became a member of the Creek House of Warriors in 1867.
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Isparhecher served as the Muscogee District judge from 1872 to 1874.
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Supporters of elected principal chief Samuel Checote impeached Isparhecher and removed him from judicial office.
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Isparhecher began traveling throughout the Creek Nation to rally support from other full-blood Creek for the opposition movement.
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Isparhecher ordered the Creek Lighthorse under William Robison and Thomas Adams to stop the Nuyaka campaign.
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Isparhecher had gone to meet with some Cherokee, seeking their support.
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Isparhecher believe that he had won and served as principal chief briefly during December 1883.
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Chief Isparhecher later returned to the Creek Nation, where he died at home on December 22,1902.
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Isparhecher was buried in the Isparhecher family cemetery in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma.