Alexander McGillivray - Definition and Overview

Alexander McGillivray (1750 – 17 February 1793) was a leader of the Creek Native American people during and after the American Revolution. McGillivray, whose mother was Creek and father was a Scottish trader, worked to establish a Creek national identity and centralized leadership as a means of resisting American expansion onto Creek territory.

External links

• Encyclopedia of North American Indians (http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_021700_mcgillivraya.htm)
• "Alexander McGillivray, Emperor of the Creeks" from "Chronicles of Oklahoma" (1929) (http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v007/v007p106.html)