- Fact 2 - South-eastern tribes were
hunters and gatherers and lived in states including Louisiana,
Georgia and Alabama.
- Fact 3 - The Alabama Indians were
originally from Mississippi and members of the Muscogee Creek
Confederacy. The Alabama tribe first encountered Europeans when
Hernando de Soto arrived in 1540
- Fact 4 - The Tunica - Biloxi
Indians inhabited an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico -
Mississippi. They were eventually forced west into Louisiana and
eastern Texas.
- Fact 5 - The
Cherokee
Indians are members of an Iroquoian people formerly living
in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma
- Fact 6 - The Chickasaw Indians of
the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Mississippi
- Fact 7 - The Choctaw Indians of
central and southern Mississippi and southwest Alabama, with
present-day populations in Mississippi and southeast Oklahoma
- Fact 8 - The Koasati Indians
members of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern
Alabamawho belonged to the the Creek Confederacy
- Fact 9 - The
Creek
(Muskogee) Indians tribe of Indians were members of the
Creek Confederacy formerly living in eastern Alabama, southwest
Georgia, and northwest Florida and are now located in central
Oklahoma and southern Alabama. The Creek received their name
from white traders because so many of their villages were
located by rivers and creeks. The Creeks were removed to Indian
Territory in the 1830s.
- Fact 10 - The Yuchi tribe of
Indians were later occupants of Alabama. The Yuchi tribe of
Indians originally lived in the eastern Tennessee River
valley in Tennessee. They were were decimated from extensive
epidemics of new infectious diseases and warfare from other
tribes. During the 17th century, they moved south to Alabama,
Georgia and South Carolina. They were included in the Creek
confederacy for political reasons in the 19th century
- Fact 11 - The Alabama or Alibamu
are a South-eastern culture people of Indians
- Fact 12 - Alabama
1805 - 1806 - (Choctaw) and northern (Chickasaw and Cherokee)
Indian cessions open up land to white settlement
- Fact 13 - 1813 - 1814 -
The Creek Indian War - At the start of the 1500's the Creeks
occupied nearly all of southeast United States
- Fact 14 - 1836 - 1837 -
The Second Creek War (Seminole War) in which Creek warriors were
defeated at Hobdy's Bridge South Alabama
- Fact 15 - 1832-1839 - Removal of
the
Seminole,
Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw and
Creek Indians,
known as the "Five Civilized Tribes", to Indian Territory
- Fact 16 - The Choctaw (alternatively
spelt as Chato and Chocktaw) are a Native American tribe
originally from the South-eastern United States (Mississippi,
Florida, Alabama, and Louisiana).
- Fact 17 - The Alabama tribe
migrated from Alabama and Mississippi to the area of Texas in
the late 18th century
- Fact 18 - The Creek Confederacy:
The Creek Confederacy was a Native American Indian confederacy
organized by the Muskogee tribes that dominated the southeastern
part of the United States before being removed to Oklahoma.
Muskhogean is a family of North American Indian languages spoken
in the south-eastern United States.
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