He led a group that supported traditional ways and was opposed to the assimilation encouraged by Chief Samuel Checote and others.
They settled on a farm at Cussetah town, about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of the present city of Okmulgee, Oklahoma[1] After most of the Creek Nation allied with the Confederacy at the outbreak of the American Civil War, Isparhecher joined the Confederate army in 1861.
After the Nation was forced to make a new peace treaty with the United States, he initially supported the recognized Creek government.
But Isparhecher became increasingly aligned with the opposition, which consisted mostly of full-blood Creek who wanted to preserve traditional ways rather than assimilate to European–American culture.
In 1883 Checote mustered the Creek Lighthorse, led by Pleasant Porter, to confront and defeat the Nuyaka group.
Isparhecher's family settled on a farm at Cussetah town, about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of what developed as Okmulgee, Oklahoma.
Isparhecher enlisted for a one-year term in the Confederate Army on August 17, 1861, becoming 4th Sergeant in Company K of the 1st Regiment of Creek Mounted Volunteers.
According to an 1896 article in the New York Times, Isparhecher had become disillusioned by the way the Confederates' white officers treated the Native American soldiers.
[1] A group of full-blood Creeks led by Lochar Harjo had settled in the vicinity of Nuyaka, a few miles west of Okmulgee.
After moving to the Beggs area, Isparhecher began to cultivate the political support of the Nuyaka Creek faction.
Even while he was a judge in Okmulgee, he began to argue that the constitution was unsuited to Creek traditional ways and therefore was not binding.
Supporters of elected principal chief Samuel Checote impeached Isparhecher and removed him from judicial office.
In 1882, after hearing that a band of Cherokee under Sleeping Rabbit might come to support the Nuyaka Creek, Chief Checote mustered militia against the movement.
He ordered the Creek Lighthorse under William Robison and Thomas Adams to stop the Nuyaka campaign.
"[5][6] Porter's men pursued the Nuyaka forces as they fled west through the Sac and Fox territory.
[1] The Nuyaka men, accompanied by their families, moved to Anadarko, where they sought refuge among the Kiowa tribe.
However, the Secretary of the Interior intervened, ruling that Perryman had won the vote count and was rightfully the principal chief.
The Isparhecher House and Grave are listed on the National Register of Historic Places of sites in Okmulgee County.