Indian Fighter: Creek Indian War, 1813-14
Read the following account of the Battle of Tallusahatchee from Crockett's 1834 autobiography, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee. In small groups, analyze Crockett's description to help you write an account of the battle from the perspective of a Creek Indian who survived the attack. Jot down your ideas under Notes on this page before you begin writing your account.

"We pursued them until we got near the house, when we saw a squaw sitting in the door, and she placed her feet against the bow she had in her hand, and then took an arrow, and, raising her feet, she drew with all her might, and let fly at us, and she killed a man, whose name, I believe, was Moore. He was a lieutenant, and his death so enraged us all, that she was fired on, and had at least twenty balls blown through her. This was the first man I ever saw killed with a bow and arrow. We now shot them like dogs; and then set the house on fire, and burned it up with the forty-six warriors in it. I recollect seeing a boy who was shot down near the house. His arm and thigh was broken, and he was so near the burning house that the grease was stewing out of him. In this situation he was still trying to crawl along; but not a murmur escaped him, though he was only about twelve years old. So sullen is the Indian, when his dander is up, that he had sooner die than make a noise, or ask for quarters."