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INDIAN VILLAGES, TOWNS AND SETTLEMENTS

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 05:48:45 +0000

Alabama Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements When Alabama was first established as part of the Mississippi Territory in the early nineteenth century, the vast majority of the land belonged to the Creek Indian Confederacy, and most of the Native American towns in Alabama were inhabited by the Creeks. The Creek Nation was divided among the […]

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Atchinalgi : Creek Indian Village

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 04:44:35 +0000

U.S. and Cherokee troops under Brigadier General James White, following the orders of Major General John Hartwell Cocke, massacred the Hillabee Creek towns along the Tallapoosa River in present-day Cherokee County, AL.

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Anatitchapko : Creek Indian Village

Mon, 18 Nov 2019 02:15:22 +0000

Anatitchapko : Creek Indian Village Return to Alabama Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements Index Page Located in Clay County, Alabama. As with many native American names, people and places, history is full of various spellings for the same person or place. Anatitchapko. Anatitchapko has been known as Au-net-techap-co, Enitachopka, Enitachopko, Enotochopco, Enotochopko, Enitachopco and Long […]

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Atasi

Sun, 05 May 2019 10:14:26 +0000

It was a miserable-looking place in Hawkins time, with about 43 warriors in 1766

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Choccolocco Alabama

Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:19:57 +0000

Choccolocco is the Anglicization of the Creek words, choko rakko, which mean “house big.” By the 1700s, the term referred to the Creek ceremonial square, which was bounded by wooden bleachers with awnings.

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Tallassee Alabama

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:23:38 +0000

Tallassee (also "Talassee," "Talisi," "Tellassee," and various similar spellings) is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Blount County and Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Tallassee was the southernmost of a string of Overhill Cherokee villages that spanned the lower Little Tennessee River in the 18th century. Although it receives scant attention in primary historical accounts, Tallassee is one of the few Overhill towns to appear on every major 18th-century map of the Little Tennessee Valley.

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Abikudshi

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:20:50 +0000

Abikudshi (‘Little Abihka’). A former Upper Creek town in North Talladega County, Alabama, on the right bank of Tallahatchee Creek, 5 miles east of Coosa River. It was settled by Abihka Indians and some of the Natchez. Bartram (1775) states that the inhabitants spoke a dialect of Chickasaw, which could have been true of only a part.

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Abihka

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:29:59 +0000

Abihka “Abihka” has been used as the name of a town, one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Creek confederacy, and sometimes as a name used to refer to all Upper Creek (or Muscogee) peoples. The Abihka were the remnants of the 16th century “Chiefdom of Coosa.” A remnant of the Natchez people settled with […]

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Abikakutchee

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 02:05:50 +0000

Abikakutchee – Creek Indian Town Alabama Indian Villages, Towns and Settlements Index Page The Indian village of Abikakutchee, also spelled “Abicouchie,” and “Abikudshi” was located, according to W. Stuart Harris’s Dead Towns of Alabama, “Situated on a mile-wide plain, Abikudshi was approximately a mile from where the Sylacauga Highway crosses over Tallassehatchee Creek, on the […]

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