

Most of these were Mikasuki people, a small minority Creek.
#INDIAN CREEK MANUAL#
Later became Koweta Manual Labor School for boys and girls. 1842: Koweta Mission a Presbyterian institution School was established and founded by Robert M.Creek Nation formed into six districts: Coweta District, Deep Fork District, Eufaula District, Muskogee District, Okmulgee District, and Wewoka District.The Monmouth collided with the Trenton more than 300 Creeks drowned. Some were taken by a southern route to New Orleans and then by steamboats ( Monmouth) up the Mississippi River to Arkansas. 1836-1837: removed from Georgia and Alabama to eastern Oklahoma.March 24, 1832: Treaty that the United States would remove intruders.He was later (1825) executed by the Creek Nation for the deed. Janu/ February 12, 1825: Treaty of Indian Springs negotiated by Creek leader William McIntosh.January 22, 1818: Creek agency on Flint river.He undermined the Creeks' sovereignty and initiated acts to take all of their lands in Georgia. 1816: After the death of Benjamin Hawkins, President James Madison appointed David B.1805-1833: The state of Georgia holds eight lotteries to distribute land seized from the Creeks and Cherokees.1796-1816: Benjamin Hawkins, was the federal agent to the Creeks.1813-1814: Creek Wars, General Andrew Jackson, in command of some of the forces.November 25, 1785: Treaty at Hopewell, South Carolina.1775: Supported the British in the American Revolutionary War.1703-08: Creeks were allies of the English in the Apalachee Wars.1540: First contact Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto.Their ancestral homeland was in Alabama and Georgia. Wewoka these districts function like counties.Ĭreek Confederacy included : Hitichita, Koasti and Yuchia.īand others associated with the Creek: Natchea, Tuskegee, The Creek Nation is comprised of six political districts: 1. Clan members were closely related so they had to marry someone from a different clan than his or her own. The children belong to the same clan as their mother. Original homeland: along the banks of the Alabama, Coosa, Tallapoosa, Flint, Ocmulgee, and Chattahoochee Rivers, In the Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and TennesseeĬreek Indians trace their ancestry through the female line.

The Creek Indians are one of the Five Civilized Tribes: Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and SeminoleĬultural area is the Southeast United States. Guide to Muscogee (Creek) Nation ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and other agency records.Ĭreek Indians were also known as Muskogee Creek.
