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  1. Aug 8, 2002 · The history of early Georgia is largely the history of the Creek Indians. For most of Georgia’s colonial period, Creeks outnumbered both European colonists and enslaved Africans and occupied more land than these newcomers. Not until the 1760s did the Creeks become a minority population in Georgia. They ceded the balance of their lands to the ...

  2. The history of early Georgia is largely the history of the Creek Indians. For most of Georgia’s colonial period, Creeks outnumbered both European colonists and enslaved Africans and occupied more land than these newcomers. Not until the 1760s did the Creeks become a minority population in Georgia. They ceded the balance of their lands to the ...

  3. Aug 8, 2002 · The history of early Georgia is largely the history of the Creek Indians. For most of Georgia's colonial period, Creeks outnumbered both European colonists and enslaved Africans and occupied more land than these newcomers. Not until the 1760s did the Creeks become a minority population in Georgia. They ceded the balance of their lands to the ...

  4. For the greater part of Georgia’s pilgrim period, Creeks dwarfed both European settlers and subjugated Africans and possessed more land than these newcomers. Not until the 1760s did the Creeks turn into a minority populace in Georgia. They surrendered the equalization of their territories to the new state in the 1800s.

  5. Dec 5, 2023 · Creek Indians In Georgia. The Creek Indians, also known as the Muscogee, were one of the largest Native American tribes in the southeastern United States. They inhabited what is now known as Georgia, Alabama, and parts of Florida and South Carolina. The Creek Indians had a rich history and culture, with a complex political and social structure.

  6. By the 1790s, white squatters flooded onto Creek lands with impunity. To defend their shrinking territory, the Creek bands united as a confederacy under the half-Scottish leader Alexander McGillivray. He became the Creek Nation’s first principal chief, working to centralize authority and resist American expansion. But the Creek homeland ...

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    Oct 6, 2020 · The Creek confederacy inhabited a large portion of what later became Alabama and Georgia. They, like other Muskhogean tribes, apparently migrated to that region from the west in prehistoric times. The confederacy was divided into two districts, the Upper Creeks, centered on the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers, and the Lower Creeks, residing near the Flint and Chattahoochee.

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