Lower Creek people

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Muscogee subgroup Native American people

The Lower Creek people were a Native American group of the Muscogee (Creek) Confederacy who lived in towns along the lower Chattahoochee, Flint, and Ocmulgee rivers in what is now the southeastern United States.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Lower Creek (Kawita) people	1
Lower Creek Indians	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Muscogee subgroup ⓘ Native American people ⓘ
ceremony	Green Corn Ceremony NERFINISHED ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
culture	Southeastern Woodlands culture NERFINISHED ⓘ
descent	matrilineal ⓘ
economy	mixed farming and hunting ⓘ
engagedIn	deerskin trade ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf	Muscogee (Creek) people NERFINISHED ⓘ
experienced	forced removal ⓘ land cessions ⓘ
forcedRemovalPeriod	1830s ⓘ
forcedRemovalTo	Indian Territory NERFINISHED ⓘ
grew	beans ⓘ maize ⓘ squash ⓘ
hadCapital	Coweta (principal town) NERFINISHED ⓘ
hadImportantTown	Cusseta NERFINISHED ⓘ Hitchiti towns ⓘ Yuchi Town NERFINISHED ⓘ
inConflictWith	State of Georgia NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
inhabited	Flint River valley NERFINISHED ⓘ Ocmulgee River valley NERFINISHED ⓘ lower Chattahoochee River valley ⓘ
language	Muscogee language NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedIn	Southern United States ⓘ surface form: Southeastern United States present-day Alabama ⓘ present-day Florida Panhandle ⓘ present-day Georgia ⓘ
partOf	Muscogee (Creek) Confederacy NERFINISHED ⓘ
politicalStructure	loosely allied towns ⓘ
practiced	agriculture ⓘ
relatedEthnicGroup	Seminole people NERFINISHED ⓘ Upper Creek people NERFINISHED ⓘ Yuchi people NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Southeastern Native ceremonialism ⓘ
signedTreaty	Treaty of Fort Jackson (1814) NERFINISHED ⓘ Treaty of Indian Springs (1825) NERFINISHED ⓘ Treaty of New York (1790) NERFINISHED ⓘ Treaty of Washington (1826) NERFINISHED ⓘ
todayPartlyRepresents	Muscogee (Creek) Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ Poarch Band of Creek Indians NERFINISHED ⓘ Seminole Tribe of Florida NERFINISHED ⓘ
tradedWith	British colonists NERFINISHED ⓘ French colonists NERFINISHED ⓘ Spanish colonists ⓘ
used	clan system ⓘ town-based political organization ⓘ

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lower Creek → ethnonym → Lower Creek people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lower Creek Indians

Lower Creek territory → historicalInhabitant → Lower Creek people ⓘ

Mikasuki people → historicalOrigin → Lower Creek people ⓘ

Lower Creek territory → namedAfter → Lower Creek people ⓘ

Lower Creek territory → originallyOccupiedBy → Lower Creek people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Lower Creek (Kawita) people