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The Eufaula people were a tribe of Native Americans in the United States, located in the Southeast. A Muskogean-speaking people, they possibly broke off from the Kealedji or Hilibi tribe. [1] They were part of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy. Some Eufaula lived along the Chattahoochee River in what became the state of Georgia.
A tipi or tepee (/ ˈ t iː p i / TEE-pee) is a conical lodge tent that is distinguished from other conical tents by the smoke flaps at the top of the structure, and historically made of animal hides or pelts or, in more recent generations, of canvas stretched on a framework of wooden poles.
Pages in category "Native American tribes in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
The Timucua were a Native American people who lived in Northeast and North Central Florida and southeast Georgia.They were the largest indigenous group in that area and consisted of about 35 chiefdoms, many leading thousands of people.
Under government pressure in 1805, the Lower Creek ceded their lands east of the Ocmulgee River to the state of Georgia, but they refused to surrender the sacred mounds. They retained a 3-by-5-mile (4.8 km × 8.0 km) area on the east bank called the Ocmulgee Old Fields Reserve. It included both the mounds on the Macon Plateau and the Lamar mounds.
Oconee was a tribal town of Hitchiti-speaking Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands during the 17th and 18th centuries.. First mentioned by the Spanish as part of the Apalachicola Province on the Chattahoochee River, Oconee moved with other towns of the province to central Georgia between 1690 and 1692.
In 1798, Superintendent Benjamin Hawkins, in charge of Southeastern regional Native American relations, used Tugaloo town as one of the landmarks for the boundary between the state of Georgia and Muscogee Creek territory. [12] After Indian Removal in the late 1830s of the Cherokee and Creek peoples, European Americans took over these lands ...
The Yamasees (also spelled Yamassees, [5] [6] Yemasees or Yemassees [7]) were a multiethnic confederation of Native Americans [4] who lived in the coastal region of present-day northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and later in northeastern Florida.