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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