Early treaties As
first war chief, Piomingo often visited other tribes in the southeastern woodlands, negotiating boundaries and disputes as needed. As a diplomat to the United States, Piomingo tended to favor an alliance with the new country as opposed to doing so with the Spanish—who at the time were actively courting the Chickasaw tribes to ally with them. His opponent in the Chickasaw tribes, Wolf's Friend (
Ugulayacabe), along with most of the other chiefs, preferred the Spanish offers, and also made a pact with them. Piomingo's interest in friendship with the United States government dates back to the early 1780s when Piomingo, following the January 11, 1781, Chickasaw attack on the
Cumberland district, negotiated a treaty of peace and friendship between the Chickasaw and the state of
Virginia. This treaty was signed with Col.
James Robertson on behalf of the colonists at
French Lick. Piomingo and
Mingo-houma represented the Chickasaw in November 1783, signing a treaty that gave up a large parcel of land at the juncture of Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee in exchange for U.S. help to evict a
squatting tribe of
Delaware Indians below
Muscle Shoals that then would be set aside for the federal government's use, at a price.
Friendship with Washington Piomingo strove to become closer to the expanding United States and its technological advances, sometimes to the detriment of relationships with other Chickasaw chiefs and allied Native American tribes such as the Choctaw and Cherokee. ==Legacy==