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

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Treaty of Fort Jackson region Creek ancestral homeland