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The Lower Creek Eufaula settled there by 1733, and quite possibly earlier than that. With more frequent contact with Europeans and later Americans, they had trade and adopted some European-style customs. The Creek Indian trailhead in Eufaula, named after Yoholo-Micco. In 1832, theirs was the only Upper Creek town listed on the
A small group of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy remained in Alabama, and their descendants formed the federally recognized Poarch Band of Creek Indians. Another Muscogee group moved into Florida between roughly 1767 and 1821, trying to evade European encroachment, [4] and intermarried with local tribes to form the Seminole.
Cusseta - a Muscogee tribal town. [21] Eastaboga, Alabama - from Muscogee este (person), ak (in water, a low place), pokv (from the work vpoketv: to sit/live). Escatawpa – from the Choctaw phrase eskatawpa, meaning "the place where cane is cut". [22] Shared with the Escatawpa River. Eufaula - from the Muscogee yofalv, the name of a tribal town.
The site along the Chattahoochee River that is now modern-day Eufaula was occupied by three Muscogee Creek tribes, including the Eufaulas. [2]: 3 By the 1820s the land was part of the Creek Indian Territory and supposedly off-limits to white settlement.
The Muscogee Nation, or Muscogee (Creek) Nation, [3] is a federally recognized Native American tribe based in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The nation descends from the historic Muscogee Confederacy, a large group of indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands. They commonly refer to themselves as Este Mvskokvlke (pronounced [isti ...
The Okchai are a Muscogee tribe. They formed part of the former Creek (Muscogee) Confederacy in Alabama , prior to their removal during the 1830s to the Indian Territory . [ 1 ]
The Alabama or Alibamu (Alabama: Albaamaha) are a Southeastern culture people of Native Americans, originally from Alabama. They were members of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy , a loose trade and military organization of autonomous towns; their home lands were on the upper Alabama River .
Peter McQueen (c. 1780 – 1820) (Creek, Muscogee) was a chief, prophet, trader and warrior from Talisi (Tallassee, among the Upper Towns in present-day Alabama.)He was one of the young men known as Red Sticks, who became a prophet for expulsion of the European Americans from Creek territory and a revival of traditional practices.