Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
William Augustus Bowles (1763-1805) was also known as Estajoca, his Muscogee name. The State of Muskogee was a proclaimed sovereign nation located in Florida, founded in 1799 and led by William Augustus Bowles, a Loyalist veteran of the American Revolutionary War who lived among the Muscogee, and envisioned uniting the Native Americans of the Southeast into a single nation that could resist ...
William McIntosh and a Muscogee delegation from the National Council went to Washington to protest the treaty to President John Quincy Adams. The US government and the Creek negotiated a new treaty, called the Treaty of New York (1826), but the Georgia state government proceeded with evicting Creek from lands under the 1825 treaty. It also ...
Muscogee confederated town networks were based on a 900-year-old history of complex and well-organized farming and town layouts around plazas, ballparks, and square ceremonial dance grounds. The Muscogee Creek are associated with multi-mound centers, such as the Ocmulgee, Etowah Indian Mounds, and Moundville sites. Precontact Muscogee societies ...
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 ...
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.
The Decatur, Georgia city council approved a resolution on December 21, 2020, to remove a cannon in the city's downtown that was erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1906 to commemorate the forceful removal of 20,000 Muscogee people in 1836. Actual removal of the monument depends on the DeKalb County council. A nearby 30-foot ...
This list of museums in Virginia, United States, contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available ...
July 28, 1977 (1408 3rd Ave. Columbus: 22: Bush-Philips Hardware Co. Bush-Philips Hardware Co. December 2, 1980 (1025 Broadway: Columbus: 23: Thomas U. Butts House