Father Vigne gave a rough account of the plan to unite the three great indian tribes, and Hatki immediately nodded.
"You are right, Father. We should have stopped fighting among ourselves long ago. The Americans dared to keep encroaching on our lands precisely because they took advantage of this! I'll help you persuade my uncle."
Father Vigne was slightly taken aback. "Your uncle?"
"Yes. The great Harjo is my uncle."
Father Vigne was overjoyed at once, and he and Chekilli returned to the chief's residence.
Half an hour later.
Chief Harjo, the tribal elders, and the priests nodded to one another before he said to Chekilli, "Since this is the request of the French Friend who helped Hatki, we will send 260 warriors to New Orleans with the Creek Tribe."
Yes, among the Indians Soleil had rescued from slave traders several years earlier were Chief Harjo's nephew, Hatki, and his younger sister.
At the time, the United Kingdom had stopped funding the North American Indians in order to court the United States, leaving the Coweta Tribe short of ammunition to fight the Americans and causing them to lose vast stretches of territory.
Hatki and his sister had still insisted then that the British Government simply did not know how difficult the Coweta Tribe's circumstances were—after all, the United Kingdom had funded them against the Americans for more than a decade.
So he had taken several trusted followers and secretly slipped out of the tribe, boarded a ship in New Orleans, crossed the ocean to London, and prepared to ask the British king to continue aiding his tribe.
Unsurprisingly, George III had no possibility of receiving a group of North American natives.
On the second day after arriving in the United Kingdom, they were swindled out of every penny they had.