Pleasant Porter was a respected American Indian

Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...

 statesman and the Principal Chief of the Creek Nation from 1899 until his death. He served with the Confederacy

Confederate States of America

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 in the 1st Creek Mounted Volunteers, as Superintendent of Schools in the Creek Nation (1870), as commander of the Creek Light Horsemen

Lighthorse (American Indian police)

Lighthorse was the name given by the Five Civilized Tribes of the United States to their mounted police force. The Lighthorse were generally organized into companies and assigned to different districts. Perhaps the most famous were the Cherokee Lighthorsemen which had their origins in Georgia...

 (1883), and was many times the Creek delegate to the United States Congress

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. He was also President of the Sequoyah

State of Sequoyah

The State of Sequoyah was the proposed name for a state to be established in the eastern part of present-day Oklahoma. In 1905, faced by proposals to end their tribal governments, Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory proposed such a state as a means to retain some...

 Statehood Convention in 1905 during the attempt to acquire statehood for the Indian Territory

Indian Territory

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