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The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, ... The result was a weakening of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy and the forced cession of Muscogee lands to the US.
First, it hoped for the cession of Muscogee land contiguous with Cherokee territory, in order to split the tribes and prevent a military alliance. Second, Georgian citizens had some $350,000 in outstanding claims against the Muscogee for seizure or destruction of property prior to the passage of the Nonintercourse Act of 1802.
Map of Georgia from Indian land cessions in the United States; lands ceded under the Treaty of Indian Springs are colored pink. The Treaty of Indian Springs, also known as the Second Treaty of Indian Springs and the Treaty with the Creeks, is a treaty concluded between the Muscogee and the United States originally on February 12, 1825 with an additional article added on February 14, 1825 [1 ...
After Tallahassee was established, the U.S. continued to push members of the Muscogee Apalachicola Band to move west, and by 1840, most of the Muscogee-speaking Creeks were removed from the region.
William McIntosh (c. 1775 – April 30, 1825), [1] also known as Tustunnuggee Hutke (White Warrior), was one of the most prominent chiefs of the Muscogee Creek Nation between the turn of the 19th-century and his execution in 1825.
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 ...
Elizabeth Grierson (c. 1790 – 1847) was a 19th-century Muscogee woman from the Hillabee town in the Muscogee Nation, now present-day Alabama. She was a businesswoman, who used the court system to her advantage. As the Muscogee relationship with Black people changed, she became a target of raids and retaliation.
Blountstown was a Muscogee town named after John Blount, who was its chief for a short time in history after the Red Stick War in the early 1800s. Blount, the leader of the Apalachicola Band, is a ...