In 1905 he was President of the Sequoyah Constitutional Convention, an effort by Native American tribes to acquire statehood for the Indian Territory.

[2] Congress did not approve their proposal, instead passing legislation to extinguish their land rights and make their territory part of the new state of Oklahoma in 1907.

She and her mother were of mixed-race, with some European ancestry in her grandfather's line; she was the daughter of Lydia Perryman and Tah-lo-pee Tust-a-nuk-kee, a town chief.

)[3] Porter was considered born into his mother's Bird Clan, as the Creek had a matrilineal kinship system.

To minimize further bloodshed, Captain Porter volunteered to mediate between the Creek leaders and white army.

According to historian John Meserve, Porter put his hand on the boy's head and announced to the family, "He will do more than any of you.

"[5] Pleasant Porter was educated at the Tullahassee Mission School on the Creek Nation, where he studied for five years.

Porter participated in several battles, including Round Mountain, Chusto-Talasah (Bird Creek), Chustenahlah, Pea Ridge and Honey Springs.

[5] In 1865, after the end of the war, Porter served as a guard for Creek commissioners who traveled to Fort Smith, Arkansas, to begin peace negotiations with U. S. government representatives.

The US required a new peace treaty following the war, one that included emancipation of Creek-owned enslaved African Americans.

These had roots to divisions in the society from the Southeast, between the Lower Creek, who tended to have lived more closely near European Americans and had more interaction with them.

They had more members and leaders of mixed-blood or partial European ancestry, and more of their men had received some European-American education.

)[6] When Principal Chief Samuel Checote convened a National Creek Council in October 1871, nearly 300 Sands followers marched on the capital and dispersed the meeting.

[5] In 1882, Judge Isparhecher, from Okmulgee, was charged with sedition by the Creek National Council and removed from office.

He gathered about 350 followers of Sands and Haijo, established a military camp and formed a rival government, complete with armed light horsemen.

He attacked the opponents camp, beginning what historian Meserve says the Creek called the "Green Peach War".

On February 24, 1884, the Indian Agent at Muskogee, under orders from the Secretary of the Interior, whose department administered Native American affairs, officially recognized Joseph Perryman as the principal chief, although he was not elected by the council.

[7] Under the terms of the Dawes Act, the Creek Nation had to agree to an allotment of former tribal lands to individual households, in an effort to force adaptation to European-American styles of farming and property ownership.

Although the agreement was rejected by the Creek in an election on November 1, 1898, the Dawes Commission began to register tribal members for the process of allotment.

[5] Porter headed a delegation to Washington, C. C. in January 1889 to negotiate the terms for turning over some more of their land to the United States, as required by the 1866 peace treaty.

Porter and other prominent leaders became interested in the movement to create a state out of Indian Territory, to be governed by Native Americans.

Other key officers elected by the delegates included Charles N. Haskell, vice chair and Alexander Posey, secretary.

[9] Porter, accompanied by Judge John R. Thomas and M. L. Mott, Creek Nation attorney, boarded a train on September 2, 1907, to attend to legal business in Missouri.

Porter complained of feeling unwell, had a stroke sometime that night, lapsed into a coma and died on the morning of September 3, 1907.