This ceremonial portrait depicts the Native American chief Yoholo-Micco. Micco means king or chief, and Yoholo signifies one of royal blood. The striking Creek leader, described as a sincere and learned man, headed the Creek delegation that traveled to Washington in 1825 to challenge a fraudulent treaty requiring his nation to cede most of its remaining southeastern territory and to relocate to western lands. (In colonial times, the Creek confederacy consisted of more than fifty towns throughout Alabama and Georgia.) Yoholo-Micco's delegation successfully negotiated a more favorable treaty with the federal government and won back the Creek territory in Alabama.