Creek Nation
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Creek Nation" is an old-time breakdown, known mainly in Oklahoma, in C Major.<br> The parts are played AABB (Thede) or AA'BB' (Phillips).<br> Marion Thede's description:<br> The Creek Indians formerly owned land and farmed in the States along the Gulf of<br> Mexico before their removal in 1832 to the Indian Territories in what is now the<br> state of Oklahoma. As the Creek Nation they conducted their own government under the<br> protectorate of the United States.<br> Thede reported her source, fiddler Claude Keenan, said it was tradition among<br> Oklahoma fiddlers that this tune was one formed on a Creek song used on the "Trail of<br> Tears" when the Creeks were forcibly removed from their southeastern homelands to the<br> territory in Oklahoma.<br> Fiddler John Dee Kennedy (1914-1997) of Pawnee, Oklahoma called his version of this<br> tune "Spotted Pony" even though the tunes are distinctly different.<br> It was printed in Phillips' Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1 (1994) and<br> Thede's The Fiddle Book (1967).<br> <br>
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