Paddy Carr (Muscogee) dating history

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Carr associated mainly with whites, made himself the centerpiece of their balls and parties, sought after profit, and, of course, worked closely with the Columbus gang to take advantage of Creek land allotees. Carr could also be haughty and proud and quick to defend his honor. He possessed a violent streak and was indicted at least once for the murder of another Indian, but apparently never convicted. Letters sent to the War Department, supposedly written by Carr, say that he favored removal as the salvation of the Creeks, and he undoubtedly believed, like the other McIntosh party members and the acculturated Cowetas in general, that the Creeks must educate themselves and utilize the market system to survive...In the end, Carr, and others like him, represented, in sociological terms, 'points of weakness' in Native society, for by mortgaging themselves and their land to the colonizers and the economic system, they became the keys, not to a meaningful acculturation of Natives, but to a loss of tribal integrity and independence. Perhaps more than any other single individual, Paddy Carr's actions, indeed his very being, revealed the tangled and destructive nature of interethnic conflict and collusion in New Alabama.