Creek ancestral homeland

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The Creek ancestral homeland is the traditional territory in the southeastern United States historically inhabited and culturally shaped by the Muscogee (Creek) people before their forced cession and removal.

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous homeland
Muscogee (Creek) cultural region
historical region
affectedByEvent Creek War (1813–1814) NERFINISHED
Indian Removal Act of 1830 NERFINISHED
Treaty of Cusseta (1832) NERFINISHED
Treaty of Fort Jackson NERFINISHED
Treaty of Washington (1826) NERFINISHED
associatedWithEthnicGroup Muscogee (Creek) Nation NERFINISHED
Muscogee (Creek) tribal towns NERFINISHED
Poarch Band of Creek Indians NERFINISHED
contains Etowah Indian Mounds region NERFINISHED
Hickory Ground area NERFINISHED
Ocmulgee Old Fields NERFINISHED
coreArea central Alabama river valleys
western Georgia river valleys
culturallyShapedBy Muscogee (Creek) agricultural practices
Muscogee (Creek) ceremonial grounds NERFINISHED
Muscogee (Creek) clan system
Muscogee (Creek) mound-building traditions
Muscogee (Creek) town-based political organization
Muscogee (Creek) towns NERFINISHED
hasSignificance central to Muscogee (Creek) identity and origin narratives
historicallyInhabitedBy Muscogee (Creek) people NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod colonial era
early United States period
pre-contact era
locatedIn Southern United States
surface form: Southeastern United States

present-day Alabama
present-day Florida
present-day Georgia
present-day Mississippi
present-day South Carolina
present-day Tennessee
modernSuccessorRegion Oklahoma Muscogee (Creek) Nation jurisdiction (as relocation site) NERFINISHED
partOf American Southeast cultural area NERFINISHED
recognizedAs ancestral territory in contemporary Muscogee (Creek) cultural memory
resultedIn forced removal of many Muscogee (Creek) people to Indian Territory
subjectTo Indian Removal policies
land cessions to the United States
traversedBy Alabama River NERFINISHED
Apalachicola River NERFINISHED
Chattahoochee River NERFINISHED
Coosa River NERFINISHED
Flint River NERFINISHED
Ocmulgee River NERFINISHED
Oconee River NERFINISHED
Tallapoosa River NERFINISHED

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Treaty of Fort Jackson region Creek ancestral homeland