During the summer of 1790, a delegation of Creek Indian chiefs traveled from the Georgia-Florida frontier to the federal capital city of New York. While there, they completed negotiations on what would be the first treaty ratified under the new Federal Constitution. Spending nearly a month in the capital city, the Creek leaders interacted, in a variety of settings, with many federal leaders as well as with many of New York City's leading citizens. Most prominent among the latter group was the New York Tammany Society. This paper explores the significance of these public and private interactions in light of the year-long process of negotiation which preceded them. The paper argues that the meaning of the various modes of public presentation and performance surrounding these negotiations becomes evident when one examines them within the political and diplomatic contexts understood by contemporaries.