Coweta (tribal town)
Native American town
Coweta was a tribal town and one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Confederacy[1] in what is now the Southeast United States, along with Kasihta (Cusseta), Abihka, and Tuckabutche.[2]
Coweta was located on the Chattahoochee River in what the Spanish called Apalachicola Province now in the modern state of Alabama. It was a central trading city of the Lower Towns of the Mucogee Confederacy. Members of the tribal town were also known as Caouitas or Caoüita.[2][p. 391]
The Cherokee language name for all the Lower Creek is Anikhawitha.[2][p. 391]
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Notable members
- William McIntosh (1775–1825)
- Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700–1767)
- Emperor Brim (died 1733)
- Malatchi (1720-1756)
Notes
- ^ Isham, Theodore and Blue Clark. "Creek (Mvskoke)." Archived 2010-07-20 at the Wayback Machine Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Retrieved 20 Aug 2012.
- ^ a b c Walker, Willard B.; Creek Confederacy Before Removal; Sturtevant, William C. (general editor) and Fogelson, Raymond D. (volume editor); Handbook of North American Indians: Southeast: Volume 14; Washington DC; Smithsonian Institution; 2004; ISBN 0-16-072300-0.
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Muscogee Creek Confederacy
- Abihka
- Coweta
- Kasihta
- Tukabatchee
- Alabama
- Apalachicola
- Coushatta
- Eufaula
- Fowltown (four locations)
- Hitchiti
- Miccosukee
- Muklassa
- Muscogee
- Okchai
- Okfuskee
- Prospect Bluff Historic Sites
- Sabacola
- Tallapoosa
- Tribal town
- Josiah Francis (Francis the Prophet)
- William McIntosh
- Peter McQueen
- Menawa
- Neamathla
- Osceola
- William Weatherford
- Mississippian culture
- Pisgah phase
- Etowah
- Moundville
- Long Swamp Site
- Apalachicola Province (predecessor to Lower Towns)
- Chiaha
- Leon-Jefferson culture
- Battle of Taliwa
- State of Muskogee
- Forbes purchase
- Red Sticks
- Red Stick War (Creek civil war)
- Battle of Burnt Corn
- Fort Mims Massacre
- Kimbell-James Massacre
- Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814)
- Prospect Bluff Historic Sites
- Battle of Ocheesee
- Seminole Wars
- Indian Removal Act
- Trail of Tears
- Creek War of 1836
- Creek National Capitol
- Crazy Snake Rebellion
- Treaty of New York (1790)
- Treaty of Fort Jackson (1814)
- Treaty of Nicolls' Outpost (unratified)
- Treaty of Moultrie Creek
- Treaty of Washington (1826)
- Indian Removal Act
- Treaty of Cusseta
- Oklahoma Tax Commission v. United States