A NUMBER OF CULT GROUP KNOWN AS THE MUSCOGEAN NATION WERE IMPORTANT IN EARLY COLONIAL DAYS. IN 1775 THE CREEK WERE MORE POWERFUL THAN ANY NATION AS JAMES ACLAIR SAID. EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE PARTNERS WITH COLONIAL ANGLOS, THEY WERE FORCED FROM THEIR LANDS BY 1830'S. THEIR CULTURE IS KEPT ALIVE IN ALABAMA AMONG THE CREEK BAND OF ESCAMBIA COUNTY.
THE CREEK INDIANS ALONG WITH OTHER SOUTHEAST TRIBES SUCH AS CHEROKEE DESCENDED FROM THE MISSSIPPI PERIOD OF 800 TO 1500. BY 1600 THE COLONISTS BROUGHT EPIDEMICS AND WARFARE AND VIOLENCE TO THE SOUTHEAST AND INDIGENOUS FOLKS SCATTERED. BY THE 1700'S THEY JOINED TOGETHER AND HAD VILLAGES ALONG CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER AND CENTRAL COOSA RIVER. A VARIETY OF SETTLEMENTS WERE BUILT ALONG THE CHATTAHOOCHIE RIVER AND COOSA RIVER IN WHAT IS NOW EASTERN ALABAMA. FOR 200 YEARS THIS BECAME THE HEART OF CREEK COUNTRY, AND THESE NEW TOWNS WERE DEVOID OF PLATFORM MOUNDS OF MISSISSIPPI VILLA
FROM 9000 PEOPLE IN 1600'S THEY GREW TO 20,000 PEOPLE BY THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. THE CREEK NATION WAS MULTIETHNIC AND INCLUDED INDIAN PEOPLE FROM SPANISH MISSIONS IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA - YUCHI, SHAWNEE, CHICKASAW, AND NATCHEZ REFUGEES. THEY ESCAPED INTERTRIBAL WARFARE.
THE CREEK NATION COMPRISED BETWEEN30 AND 60 TOWNS. THEY VIEWED THEMSELVES AS A CONFEDERACY OF THREE PROVINCIAL GROUPS. THE CREEKS ARE RELATED TO OTHER SOUTHEAST TRIBES. THEY GREW CORN, BEANS AND OTHER CROPS. THEY HUNTED FOR SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZED GAME AND GATHERED NATIVE PLANTS. THE CREEK HAVE A CEREMONY CALLED BUSK CEREMONY OR PASKITA AND THEY SHARE MANY ASPECTS OF THE GREEN CORN CEREMONY PRACTICED THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHEAST. IT INVOLVED 4 - 8 DAYS OF FASTING, DANCING, AND FEASTING IN SUMMER. DURING POSKITA CEREMONIES THE ELDERS REMIND THE YOUNG OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. IT WAS AT THIS TIME WHEN WAR AND CIVIL LEADERS RECEIVED DIFFERENT STATUS. THE REASON FOR THIS RITUAL WAS GROUP HARMONY.
THE CREEK HAD TRADE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SPANISH. THEY EXCHANGED CLOTH GUNS, STEEL TOOLS FOR SKINNING AND INDIAN SLAVES IN WARFARE. AT OCMULGEE AND OCONEE RIVERS IN CENTRAL GEORGIA THE ENGLISH BUILT A PERMANENT TRADING POST, THAT HAS BEEN EXCAVATED. THEY HAVE A NATIONAL MONUMENT WITH ARTIFACTS IN MACON, GEORGIA. THE CREEK WERE IMMERSED IN THE TRADE OF DEERSKINS AND INDIAN SLAVES. THE CREEKS BEGAN TO ASSIST IN WAR PARTIES IN THE EARLY 1700'S THAT COMPROMISED THEIR ECONOMIC WELL BEING AND CULTURAL INTEGRITY. IN THE 1800'S THE CREEKS CEDED MUCH LAND IN GEORGIA TO THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR ECONOMY WAS SIMILAR TO THE CIVILIZED ANGLOS. THEY FARMED COMMERCIALLY, SPUN CLOTHING AND BECAME CHRISTIANS. AFTER THEY RELOCATED IN ALABAMA IN 1832 THE GOVERNMENT SENT THEM TO OKLAHOMA DURING THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT. BY MARCH OF THAT YEAR THE CREEKS AGREED TO THE TREATY OF CUSSETTA, WHICH SET FORTH THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR REMOVAL. IT INCLUDED LAND GRANTS FOR THE CHIEFS.
THE CREEK INDIANS ALONG WITH OTHER SOUTHEAST TRIBES SUCH AS CHEROKEE DESCENDED FROM THE MISSSIPPI PERIOD OF 800 TO 1500. BY 1600 THE COLONISTS BROUGHT EPIDEMICS AND WARFARE AND VIOLENCE TO THE SOUTHEAST AND INDIGENOUS FOLKS SCATTERED. BY THE 1700'S THEY JOINED TOGETHER AND HAD VILLAGES ALONG CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER AND CENTRAL COOSA RIVER. A VARIETY OF SETTLEMENTS WERE BUILT ALONG THE CHATTAHOOCHIE RIVER AND COOSA RIVER IN WHAT IS NOW EASTERN ALABAMA. FOR 200 YEARS THIS BECAME THE HEART OF CREEK COUNTRY, AND THESE NEW TOWNS WERE DEVOID OF PLATFORM MOUNDS OF MISSISSIPPI VILLA
FROM 9000 PEOPLE IN 1600'S THEY GREW TO 20,000 PEOPLE BY THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. THE CREEK NATION WAS MULTIETHNIC AND INCLUDED INDIAN PEOPLE FROM SPANISH MISSIONS IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA - YUCHI, SHAWNEE, CHICKASAW, AND NATCHEZ REFUGEES. THEY ESCAPED INTERTRIBAL WARFARE.
THE CREEK NATION COMPRISED BETWEEN30 AND 60 TOWNS. THEY VIEWED THEMSELVES AS A CONFEDERACY OF THREE PROVINCIAL GROUPS. THE CREEKS ARE RELATED TO OTHER SOUTHEAST TRIBES. THEY GREW CORN, BEANS AND OTHER CROPS. THEY HUNTED FOR SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZED GAME AND GATHERED NATIVE PLANTS. THE CREEK HAVE A CEREMONY CALLED BUSK CEREMONY OR PASKITA AND THEY SHARE MANY ASPECTS OF THE GREEN CORN CEREMONY PRACTICED THROUGHOUT THE SOUTHEAST. IT INVOLVED 4 - 8 DAYS OF FASTING, DANCING, AND FEASTING IN SUMMER. DURING POSKITA CEREMONIES THE ELDERS REMIND THE YOUNG OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. IT WAS AT THIS TIME WHEN WAR AND CIVIL LEADERS RECEIVED DIFFERENT STATUS. THE REASON FOR THIS RITUAL WAS GROUP HARMONY.
THE CREEK HAD TRADE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SPANISH. THEY EXCHANGED CLOTH GUNS, STEEL TOOLS FOR SKINNING AND INDIAN SLAVES IN WARFARE. AT OCMULGEE AND OCONEE RIVERS IN CENTRAL GEORGIA THE ENGLISH BUILT A PERMANENT TRADING POST, THAT HAS BEEN EXCAVATED. THEY HAVE A NATIONAL MONUMENT WITH ARTIFACTS IN MACON, GEORGIA. THE CREEK WERE IMMERSED IN THE TRADE OF DEERSKINS AND INDIAN SLAVES. THE CREEKS BEGAN TO ASSIST IN WAR PARTIES IN THE EARLY 1700'S THAT COMPROMISED THEIR ECONOMIC WELL BEING AND CULTURAL INTEGRITY. IN THE 1800'S THE CREEKS CEDED MUCH LAND IN GEORGIA TO THE GOVERNMENT AND THEIR ECONOMY WAS SIMILAR TO THE CIVILIZED ANGLOS. THEY FARMED COMMERCIALLY, SPUN CLOTHING AND BECAME CHRISTIANS. AFTER THEY RELOCATED IN ALABAMA IN 1832 THE GOVERNMENT SENT THEM TO OKLAHOMA DURING THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT. BY MARCH OF THAT YEAR THE CREEKS AGREED TO THE TREATY OF CUSSETTA, WHICH SET FORTH THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR REMOVAL. IT INCLUDED LAND GRANTS FOR THE CHIEFS.
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