Creek Indians

Creek Indians were also known as Muskogee.

The Creek Indians are one of the Five Civilized Tribes.

Their cultural area is the Southeast United States.

Linguistic group: Muskogean

Federal Status: Recognized

Clans: Wind, Bird, Alligator, Bear

Creek Indians trace their ancestry through the female line. The children belong to the same clan as their mother. Clan members were closely related so they had to marry someone from a different clan than his or her own.

Brief Timeline
1703-08 Creeks were allies of the English in the Apalachee wars.

1813-1814 Creek Wars, General Andrew Jackson, in command of some of the forces

1796-1816 Benjamin Hawkins, was the federal agent to the Creeks

1816, after the death of Benjamin Hawkins, President James Madison apponted David B. Mitchell, a former governor of Georgia. He undermined the Creeks' sovereignty and initated acts to take all of their lands in Georgia.

1836 last months and spring and summer of 1837 removed from Georgia and Alabama to eastern Oklahoma. Some were taken by a southern route to New Orleans and then by steamboats (Monmouth) up the Mississippi River to Arkansas. The Monmouth collided with the Trenton more than 300 Creeks drowned.

Records
November 25, 1785: Treaty at Hopewell, South Carokina

June 29, 1796: Coleraine, Georgia

August 9, 1814: Fort Jackson, Alabama

January 22, 1818: Creek agency on Flint river

January 8, 1821 / February 12, 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs negotiated by Creek leader William McIntosh. He was later (1825) executed by the Creek Nation for the deed.

January 24, 1826 Washington D.C.;Creeks would sell their land. Ratified April 22, 1826

March 24, 1832: Treaty that the United States would remove intruders.

November 23, 1838: Ft. Gibson