[citation needed] In October 1811, Tecumseh visited Tukabatchee to deliver his message of pan-tribal unity and hostility to the United States.
The U.S. threatened the Creek Nation with invasion in order to obtain justice for crimes committed on the Tennessee Frontier and along the Federal Road.
When peace terms were being negotiated, an April 14th letter from Major General Thomas Pinckney to Benjamin Hawkins instructed him to inform their Creek allies that friendly Chiefs would be remunerated for the land cessions, and they would be compensated for damaged property.
Both the Red Sticks and U.S. troops had contributed to the property damage, where soldiers had "razed several towns and slaughtered nearly all the livestock in Creek country.
"[3] However, Andrew Jackson did not uphold the promise to compensate their Creek allies for their property damage, which angered Big Warrior.
Historians such as Claudio Saunt take a more critical view, analyzing different statements that Big Warrior made both publicly and privately during treaty negotiations and suggesting that he valued compensation for personal losses more than he valued the land being ceded away which comprised "thousands of acres of forests held in common by Creeks.
In the treaty, the United States "declared the Creeks a defeated people and took nearly 22 million acres of land in payment for war expenses", and Big Warrior was described along with other National Council chiefs as being "forced" to sign it.