Big Warrior

Big Warrior or Tustanagee Thlucco (Tvstanagi Rakkē in Mvskokē «Big Warrior» < rak·kē «big» ) was a principal chief of the Muscogee Nation until his death on March 8, 1825. He was referred to as "one of the most powerful Creeks allied with the United States".

Early life Big Warrior was from the town of Tukabatchee. His father was of Piankeshaw descent and his mother was Tukabatchee. He married a Tukabatchee woman named Tefvhoe.

The name Tustanagee Thlucco is actually a war title meaning "great warrior," and was given to the man who led all the warriors of a town. No other Creek name is recorded for Big Warrior.

Big Warrior, representing the Upper Creek Towns as Speaker, Big Warrior's objections did not convince Jackson, who according to the Minutes of Occurrences at Fort Jackson threatened to put Big Warrior in chains for insisting on compensation. Hawkins described Big Warrior as having "a difficult part to act," with the competing obligations to the U.S. allies and to the Creek people in terms of securing treaty terms. 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." Big Warrior worked against a land treaty made by William McIntosh in 1825, the Treaty of Indian Springs. The Creek National Council did not authorize the treaty and they sent a delegation to Washington, D.C. to protest the ratification. Big Warrior travelled as a part of the Creek delegation, and he died on March 8, 1825, while in Washington, D.C.