Creek Indians fun facts

  • actually the Muscogee people, called the Creek by early settlers
  • descendants of the Mississippian culture indians, mound builders from 2000-1500 years ago
  • early Spanish explorers kidnapped Creeks and enslaved them in the Caribean plantations
  • Creek Chiefs owned African slaves and cotton plantations from New Orleans to Washington DC
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  • Leaders attempted to settle a land dispute with the Choctaw nation (1790) with a ball game
  • thought to be linked to the Etowah Indian Mounds, north and west of Acworth Ga.
  • William Augustus Bowles of Maryland explored Georgia and married two wives, a Mucogee and a Cherokee in the late 18th century

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