- Fact 2 - South-eastern tribes were
hunter gatherers and hunter farmers and lived in states including Louisiana,
Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
- Fact 2 - Georgia - The Indians of Georgia
included the
Cherokee and Creek Nations, almost all of Georgia
was controlled by the Creeks. 1838 -
The
Trail of Tears.
Cherokee and Creek Indians are forced from the state
- Fact 3 - Names of Border States:
Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee
- Fact 4 - Origin of the name of the
state: Named for King George II of England
- Fact 5 - Features of the area: Blue
Ridge Mountains, rivers; coastal plain
areas and coastal flatlands.
- Fact 6 - The Apalachee
Indians are an extinct tribe
of Native North Americans who once centered about Apalachee Bay
in North West Florida. They were conquered by combined Native
American and British forces and merged with the Seminole tribe.
Wars and diseases, brought by the Europeans, to which they had
no immunity led to their demise.
- Fact 7 - The
Cherokee tribe of Indians were one of the "Five Civilized
Tribes", because they had assimilated cultural and customs of
the white settlers and colonists. The Cherokee refer to
themselves as the "Principal People". The "Five Civilized
Tribes" were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and
Seminole
- Fact 8 - The Hitchiti tribe were members of the
Muskhogean people and the Creek Confederacy formerly living in
Georgia
- Fact 9 - The Oconee were a tribe of Hitchiti
speakers that became part of the Seminole and Creek nations
- Fact 10 - The Miccosukee tribe were one of the
tribes of the Creek Confederacy who spoke the Mikasuki language,
a derivative of the Hitchiti language which is also spoken by
many Seminoles.
- Fact 11 - The
Muskogee Creek
tribe of Indians were members of the Creek Confederacy formerly
living in eastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and northwest
Florida and 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 12 - The Timucua tribe of Indians inhabited Georgia but are now extinct
as they were also conquered by combined Native American and
British forces. Wars and diseases, brought by the Europeans, to
which they had no immunity led to their demise.
- Fact 13 - The Yamasee tribes lived
in the northern coastal Georgia near the Savannah River and
later in northeastern Florida. In 1687 the Spanish attempted to
send Yamasees to the West Indies as slaves which resulted in the
tribe rebelling against the Spanish missions. The Yamasee tribe
moved into South Carolina.
- Fact 14 - The Guale tribe of Indians were
decimated from extensive epidemics of new infectious diseases
and warfare from other tribes. Some joined with other survivors
and became known as the Yamasee. Other survivors migrated to the
mission areas of Spanish Florida
- Fact 15 - The
Shawnee tribe
of Indians were later occupants of Georgia. The Shawnee were
Algonquian-speaking tribes who were spread over a widespread
geographic area although their earliest known home was in the
state of Ohio. Traditionally the Shawnee lived in bark-covered
houses grouped into large villages near cornfields. Many Shawnee
fought as allies of their French trading partners during the
early years of the French and Indian War (aka Seven Years War).
In fact, the warlike Shawnee participated in almost every war of
the Old West. They were greatly feared as it was their custom to
torture their prisoners.
- Fact 16 - The Yuchi tribe of
Indians were later occupants of Georgia. 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 17 - 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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