page_title: William Weatherford
hierarchical_section_title: William Weatherford
caption_attribution_description: Summary: Print shows Andrew Jackson sitting in a chair on the left, in a tent, speaking with William Weatherford who is standing on the right near the opening of the tent.
context_page_description: William Weatherford, also known after his death as Red Eagle, was a Creek chief of the Upper Creek towns who led many of the Red Sticks actions in the Creek War against Lower Creek towns and against allied forces of the United States.
  One of many mixed-race descendants of Southeast Indians who intermarried with European traders and later colonial settlers, William Weatherford was of mixed Creek, French, and Scots ancestry. He was raised as a Creek in the matrilineal nation and achieved his power in it, through his mother's prominent Wind Clan. After the war, he rebuilt his wealth as a slaveholding planter in lower Monroe County, Alabama.
context_section_description: William Weatherford, also known after his death as Red Eagle (ca. 1781–March 24, 1824), was a Creek chief of the Upper Creek towns who led many of the Red Sticks actions in the Creek War (1813–1814) against Lower Creek towns and against allied forces of the United States.
  One of many mixed-race descendants of Southeast Indians who intermarried with European traders and later colonial settlers, William Weatherford was of mixed Creek, French, and Scots ancestry. He was raised as a Creek in the matrilineal nation and achieved his power in it, through his mother's prominent Wind Clan (as well as his father's trading connections). After the war, he rebuilt his wealth as a slaveholding planter in lower Monroe County, Alabama.
caption: Depiction of William Weatherford surrendering to Andrew Jackson after the Battle of Horseshoe Bend
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