Alexander McGillivray, chief of the Creek Nation, was the Most powerful Native American in the United States when George Washington became the nation\'s first president in 1789.
He wanted a national policy toward the Native Americans that would be binding on Georgia, whose ci.
Washington faced the task of making the new Nation a political reality.
McGillivray, of what is now Alabama, had been on the losing side of the Revolutionary War backing the British.
Both men faced uncertainty.
Alexander McGillivray, chief of the Creek Nation, was the Most powerful Native American in the United States when George Washington became the nation\'s first president in 1789