The Muscogee People And Creek Confederacy

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The Muscogee people, also known as the Creek people and Creek Confederacy, are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeast. Originally from Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and northern Florida. Creek people were forcibly relocated in the early 19th century to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas. The Creek are descendants of the Mississippian culture peoples, who built earthwork mounds at their regional chiefdoms located throughout the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries. Early Spanish explorers encountered ancestors of the Muscogee when they visited Mississippian-culture chiefdoms in the Southeast in the mid-16th century. The Muscogee were the first Native Americans considered to be "civilized"