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William Weatherford

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 01:36:06 +0000

William Weatherford William Weatherford, known as Red Eagle (ca. 1781–March 24, 1824), was a Creek chief of the Upper Creek towns who led many of the Red Sticks actions in the Creek War (1813–1814) against Lower Creek towns and against allied forces of the United States. One of many mixed-race descendants of Southeast Indians who […]

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Barbour County Alabama

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 00:46:05 +0000

Barbour County is a county Alabama. As of the 2010 census, the population was 27,457. Its county seat is Clayton Alabama. Its name is in honor of James Barbour, who served as Governor of Virginia.

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SHELBY COUNTY ALABAMA

Mon, 20 May 2019 09:20:29 +0000

Shelby County Alabama Shelby County Alabama is located near the geographic center of the state of Alabama. The county seat of Shelby County is Columbiana Alabama. The county is named in honor of Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky from 1792 to 1796 and again from 1812 to 1816. Shelby County Alabama History: The original county […]

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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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The Creek Confederacy

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:08:58 +0000

The Creek Confederacy was a loose coalition of ethnically and linguistically diverse Native American towns that slowly coalesced as a political entity in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

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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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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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Atchinalgi : Creek Indian Village

Mon, 18 Feb 2019 04:44:35 +0000

Atchinalgi : Creek Indian Village ALABAMA INDIAN VILLAGES, TOWNS AND SETTLEMENTS INDEX PAGE On the east bank of the Tallapoosa River, in Randolph County, Alabama, near the mouth of Cedar Creek. Atchinalgi was destroyed on November 13, 1813 by General James White and his troops from Tennessee. Wikipedia contributors, “James White (general),” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, […]

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