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Muscogee Creek land cessions 1733–1832 Ceded area as deemed by the Treaty of Fort Jackson in 1814. Land was the most valuable asset, which the Native Americans held in collective stewardship. The southern English colonies, US government and settlers systematically obtained Muscogee land through treaties, legislation, and warfare.
By the late 18th century, the largest Native American confederacy in present-day Georgia and Alabama was the Muscogee confederacy (known during the colonial and federal periods as the Muscogee Creek tribe). They were among the Muskogean-speaking peoples of the Southeast.
Illustration of a S.E.C.C. Falcon Dancer based on a Rogan plate from Etowah in northern Georgia. The early historic Muscogee were probably descendants of the Mississippian culture peoples who lived along the Tennessee River, in what is now modern Tennessee [2] and Alabama, and possibly related to the Utinahica of southern Georgia.
Georgia's congressional delegation introduced legislation Wednesday to protect some of the ancestral lands of the Muscogee tribe as a national park and preserve. The proposed Ocmulgee Mounds Park ...
Professor Andrew Frank, director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Center at Florida State University, said the new relationship between the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and their homelands ...
The area is the ancestral home of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and has been inhabited continuously by humans for over 12,000 years. American Indians first arrived in the area during the Paleo ...
The Muscogee Creek confederacy was composed of autonomous tribal towns, governed by their own elected leadership. The Creek originated in the Southeastern United States, in what is now Alabama and Georgia. They were collectively removed from the southeast to Indian Territory under the United States' Indian Removal Policy of the 1830s. [3] [4]
While local leaders have memorialized the city’s Native Americans through high school mascots, street names and statues, the people of the Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, or any Native tribe, have ...