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What was the original name of the Creek Indians?
Muskogee Creek
Creek Indians were also known as Muskogee Creek. Cultural area is the Southeast United States. Creek Indians trace their ancestry through the female line. The children belong to the same clan as their mother.
Who were Creeks ancestors?
In the late 1700’s, the center of the Creek Nation was along the intersection of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery. The ancestors of the Poarch Creek Indians lived along the Alabama River, including areas from Wetumpka south to the Tensaw settlement.
What is another name for the Creek tribe?
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy (pronounced [məskóɡəlɡi] in the Muscogee language), are a group of related indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands in the United States of America.
What kind of people are the Creek tribe?
The Creek tribe, who call themselves the Muscogee, are descendants of the Mississippian culture people, who built earthwork mounds at their villages located throughout the Mississippi River valley (refer to the Natchez Tribe for more facts about the mound building Native Indians).
Where did the Creek Indians live in the United States?
The Creek Indians are one of the Five Civilized Tribes: Creek, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole Cultural area is the Southeast United States. Original homeland: along the banks of the Alabama, Coosa, Tallapoosa, Flint, Ocmulgee, and Chattahoochee Rivers, In the Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee
Are there any Seminole Indians that are Creek people?
No, but some Seminoles are Creek people. The Seminole tribe was originally an alliance between certain Creek, Miccosukee, Hitchiti, Oconee, and other Indian people of northern Florida and southern Georgia.
Why was the Creek Tribe Called the white sticks?
During the War of Independence the Creek people who aligned themselves with the Americans were called White Sticks. Those who had sided with the British were called Red Sticks, supposedly due to the red-colored war clubs that they carried into battle. Following the War of Independence the ‘civilizing programs’ began.