36 Facts About Muscogee people

1.

The Yuchi people today are part of the Muscogee Nation, but their Yuchi language is a linguistic isolate, unrelated to any other language.

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2.

Ancestors of the Muscogee people were part of the Mississippian Ideological Interaction Sphere, known as the Mississippian culture.

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3.

Muscogee people Creek are associated with multi-mound centers, such as the Ocmulgee, Etowah Indian Mounds, and Moundville sites.

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4.

Precontact Muscogee people societies shared agriculture, transcontinental trade, craft specialization, hunting, and religion.

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5.

Muscogee people were the first Native Americans officially considered by the early United States government to be "civilized" under George Washington's civilization plan.

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6.

Early historic Muscogee people were descendants of the Mississippian culture along the Tennessee River in modern Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.

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7.

Muscogee people were gradually influenced by interactions and trade with the Europeans: trading or selling deer hides in exchange for European goods such as muskets, or alcohol.

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8.

Muscogee people attracted many recruits from a variety of backgrounds who joined his quest for riches in the Americas.

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9.

Muscogee people lived in autonomous villages in river valleys throughout present-day Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, speaking several related Muskogean languages.

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10.

The Muscogee people were a confederacy of tribes consisting of Yuchi, Koasati, Alabama, Coosa, Tuskegee, Coweta, Cusseta, Chehaw, Hitchiti, Tuckabatchee, Oakfuskee, and many others.

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11.

The Muscogee people had a matrilineal kinship system, with children considered born into their mother's clan, and inheritance was through the maternal line.

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12.

Muscogee people was the principal interpreter for Georgia's founder and first Governor Gen.

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13.

Muscogee people became a wealthy landowner and merchant, owning as many as sixty black slaves.

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14.

Muscogee people married two wives, one Cherokee and the other a daughter of the Hitchiti Muscogee chieftain William Perryman, and later used this union as the basis for his claim to exert political influence among the Creeks.

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15.

Muscogee people was received by King George III as 'Chief of the Embassy for Creek and Cherokee Nations'; it was with British backing that he returned to train the Muscogee as pirates to attack Spanish ships.

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16.

Muscogee people established his capital at Miccosuki, a village on the shores of Lake Miccosukee near present-day Tallahassee.

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17.

Muscogee people denounced the treaties Alexander McGillivray had negotiated with Spain and the US, threatening to declare war on the United States unless it returned Muscogee lands, and issuing a death sentence against George Washington's Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins, who won the loyalty of the Lower Creeks.

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18.

Muscogee people built a tiny navy, and raided Spanish ships in the Gulf of Mexico, and, in 1800, declared war on Spain, briefly capturing the presidio and trading post of San Marcos de Apalache before being forced to retreat.

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19.

Muscogee people formulated a policy to encourage the "civilizing" process, and it was continued under President Thomas Jefferson.

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20.

The Muscogee people would be the first Native Americans to be "civilized" under Washington's six-point plan.

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21.

Muscogee people personally assumed the role of principal agent to the Muscogee.

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22.

Muscogee people moved to the area that is Crawford County in Georgia.

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23.

Muscogee people began to teach agricultural practices to the tribe, starting a farm at his home on the Flint River.

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24.

Muscogee people was responsible for the longest period of peace between the settlers and the tribe, overseeing 19 years of peace.

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25.

Muscogee people who joined Tecumseh's confederation were known as the Red Sticks.

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26.

Muscogee people were later involved on both sides of the Seminole Wars in Florida.

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27.

Muscogee people had family ties to some of Georgia's planter elite, and after the wars became a wealthy cotton-planter.

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28.

Muscogee people was related to Alexander McGillivray and William Weatherford, both mixed-race Creek.

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29.

Friends and Brothers – By permission of the Great Spirit above, and the voice of the Muscogee people, I have been made President of the United States, and now speak to you as your Father and friend, and request you to listen.

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30.

Muscogee people culture has greatly evolved over the centuries, combining mostly European-American influences; however, interaction with Spain, France, and England greatly shaped it as well.

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31.

Muscogee people continue to preserve chaya and share a vibrant tribal identity through events such as annual festivals, stickball games, and language classes.

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32.

Muscogee people Creek believed young men who became educated in European ways could help them manage under the new conditions related to colonialism, while preserving important Muscogee people Creek cultural institutions.

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33.

Muscogee people language is a member of the Muskogean family and was well known among the frontiersmen, such as Gideon Lincecum, of the early 19th century.

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34.

Muscogee people went continually, killing small game, and he had many dogs.

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35.

Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana are a tribe of Muscogee people, descended from the Koasati, as are the Alabama-Coushatta Tribes of Texas.

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36.

Many Muscogee people moved out of their tribal nation in Oklahoma to the nearest cities, and to other states like California, Michigan, Missouri and Tennessee in the second half of the 20th century.

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