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Descendants of free Black pioneers who settled Lick Creek Settlement hike the Hoosier National Forest Lick Creek Trail after helping clean gravestones at the Roberts & Thomas Cemetery, which is ...
The area is downstream from the Tar Creek Superfund Site, […] — The Eastern Shawnee Tribe is celebrating a multi-agency effort to restore a creek that runs through their land.
Melungeon (/ m ə ˈ l ʌ n dʒ ən / mə-LUN-jən) (sometimes also spelled Malungean, Melangean, Melungean, Melungin [3]) was a slur [4] historically applied to individuals and families of mixed-race ancestry with roots in colonial Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina primarily descended from free people of color and white settlers.
Also in the late 1940s, McGhee spearheaded an effort to file a lands claim case with the Indian Claims Commission. He formed a group that became the Creek Nation East of the Mississippi that pursued a case for compensation for lands lost by the Creeks in the nineteenth century.
Creek Freedmen is a term for emancipated Creeks of African descent who were slaves of Muscogee Creek tribal members before 1866. They were emancipated under the tribe's 1866 treaty with the United States following the American Civil War , during which the Creek Nation had allied with the Confederate States of America.
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The Arapahoe and Lost Creek Site is an archeological site in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Site includes evidence of settlement over a 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) stretch along the terraces of Arapahoe Creek and Lost Creek. The site was used by Native Americans more or less continuously for 9000 years until about 1900.
Lost Creek is located at (39.158451, -80.348165) in southern Harrison County [ 9 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.97 square miles (2.51 km 2 ), all of it land.