Lower Creek people

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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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Predicate Object
instanceOf Muscogee subgroup
Native American people
ceremony Green Corn Ceremony
country United States
culture Southeastern Woodlands culture
linked to: Eastern Woodlands
descent matrilineal
economy mixed farming and hunting
engagedIn deerskin trade
ethnicGroupOf Muscogee (Creek) people
linked to: Muscogee people
experienced forced removal
land cessions
forcedRemovalPeriod 1830s
forcedRemovalTo Indian Territory
grew beans
maize
squash
hadCapital Coweta (principal town)
linked to: Coweta County
hadImportantTown Cusseta
linked to: Cusseta, Alabama

Hitchiti towns
Yuchi Town
inConflictWith State of Georgia
linked to: Georgia

United States
inhabited Flint River valley
linked to: Flint River

Ocmulgee River valley
linked to: Ocmulgee River

lower Chattahoochee River valley
language Muscogee language
locatedIn Southeastern United States
present-day Alabama
present-day Florida Panhandle
present-day Georgia
partOf Muscogee (Creek) Confederacy
politicalStructure loosely allied towns
practiced agriculture
relatedEthnicGroup Seminole people
linked to: Seminole

Upper Creek people
linked to: Lower Creek people

Yuchi people
religion Southeastern Native ceremonialism
signedTreaty Treaty of Fort Jackson (1814)
Treaty of Indian Springs (1825)
Treaty of New York (1790)
Treaty of Washington (1826)
todayPartlyRepresents Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Poarch Band of Creek Indians
Seminole Tribe of Florida
linked to: Seminole
tradedWith British colonists
French colonists
Spanish colonists
used clan system
town-based political organization

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Lower Creek territory historicalInhabitant Lower Creek people
Lower Creek territory namedAfter Lower Creek people
Lower Creek territory originallyOccupiedBy Lower Creek (Kawita) people
linked to: Lower Creek people
Lower Creek ethnonym Lower Creek Indians
linked to: Lower Creek people
Mikasuki people historicalOrigin Lower Creek people
Battle of Horseshoe Bend involvedForce Lower Creek warriors
linked to: Lower Creek people
Miccosukee people historicalOrigin Lower Creek peoples
linked to: Lower Creek people
Lower Creek people relatedEthnicGroup Upper Creek people
linked to: Lower Creek people