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Chickasaw - named for the Chickasaw tribe. [21] Coosada - named for the Coushatta tribe. Cusseta - a Muscogee tribal town. [22] 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". [23]
In the case of Moundville, currently 7 tribes are laying claim to the 5,892 human remains [13] that have been excavated there. Those tribes being: [14] • The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma • The Chickasaw Nation • The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana • The Muscogee (also known as the Creek) Nation • The Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town
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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 .
The pre-removal tribal town was located on the Tallapoosa River in the present-day state of Alabama. The town is believed to be the first site of the ancient 'busk' fire which began the Green Corn Ceremony. Tukabatchee was the home of Big Warrior, one of the two principal chiefs of the Creeks until his death in 1826.
Tallapoosa River, near Horseshoe Bend, Alabama. The Tallapoosas were a division of the Upper Creeks in the Muscogee Confederacy. [1] Prior to Removal to Indian Territory, Tallapoosa lived along the Tallapoosa River in Alabama. [2] They are also called the Cadapouches or Canapouches, which was mistakenly considered a synonym for the Catawba of ...
The members of the Abihka were Upper Creek Indians. Their main place of residence was along the banks of the Upper Coosa and Alabama rivers, [6] in what is now Talladega County, Alabama. [7] Besides the town of Abihka, the Creek had established other important towns in their territory: Abihkutchi, Tuckabutche, Talladega, Coweta, and Kan-tcati.
Extending entirely across the state of Alabama for about 20 miles (32 km) northern boundary, and in the middle stretching 60 miles (97 km) farther north, is the Cumberland Plateau, or Tennessee Valley region, broken into broad tablelands by the dissection of rivers.