Yoholomicco was a Creek Chief, born
about 1788, died in 1838.
Nothing has been recorded as to his
parents, his early life, nor when he became chief of Yufala and
Speaker of the Creek Nation. There were two towns named Yufala in the
Upper Creek country; the one, of which Yoholomicco was chief, was
situated on the west bank of the Tallapoosa, two miles below
Okfuskee.
Yoholomicco served with General
Mclntosh in the Creek war of 1813 and bore an honorable part in all
the battles in which the friendly Creeks were engaged against their
insurgent countrymen.
In late 1825 a delegation of Creek
headmen visited Washington, D.C., in an attempt to renegotiate the
Treaty of Indian Springs. That treaty, negotiated by William
McIntosh) (1775-1825), sold more than five-million acres of communal
Creek land in what is now Georgia.
Among the delegation were Yoholo Micco
and his son Mistippee.
As Speaker of the Council convened to
hear the propositions of the government on that occasion, his
demeanor is thus described by Colonel Thomas L. McKenny, there
present representing the government, and a most competent eye
witness:
“Yoholo Micco explained the
object of the mission, in a manner so clear and pointed as not to be
easily forgotten by those who heard him. He rose with the
unembarrassment of one, who felt the responsibility of his high
office, was familiarly versed in its duties, and satisfied of his own
ability to discharge it with success. He was not unaware of the
delicacy of the subject, nor of the excitable state of the minds to
which his argument was to be addressed, and his harangue was artfully
suited to the occasion. With the persuasive manner of an accomplished
orator, and in the silver tones of a most flexible voice, he placed
the subject before his savage audience in all its details and
bearings—making his several points with clearness, and in order,
and drawing out his deductions in the lucid and conclusive manner of
a finished rhetorician.”
On account of his advocating the
adoption by his people of the plans proposed by the government and by
individuals to promote the civilization of the Creeks, finally became
unpopular, and was deposed from his chieftianship, the year not
known. He was consistent in his private life in following the ways of
civilized life, which he had vainly urged upon his people. He gave
his children the best education the country afforded, and brought his
sons up to the pursuits of civilized life. His example was followed
by one of his married daughters, the wife of a Yufala chief, who gave
all her children liberal educations. Yoholomicco is represented as a
man of a mild, generous disposition. He died on his way. to the new
home of the Creeks from the fatigues incident to the emigration.
SOURCES
Excerpt from
History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography Volume II,
1921
McKenney and Hall’s Indian Tribes of North America (1842), vol. iii, pp. 17, 18; Handbook o/ American Indians (1910), part 2, p. 998.
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