Southeastern Creek Indians

Southeastern Creek Indians

By the 17th century the Muscoggee members migrated from west of the Mississippi to inhabit the areas of Georgia and Alabama were English traders first encountered the Muscoggee. The English called them Creeks; it appears that they lived in by the creeks and streams of Alabama in addition to Georgia. Creek Nation was the most powerful Indian political unit in North America with the exception of the Iroquois Confederacy of upper New York. In the early 18th century the Muscoggee nation consisted an estimated ten thousand people including more than three thousand warriors. This ancient culture also had a complex political structure that was neither overawed nor envious of the European power and culture. I will discuss the cultural overview of the Creek Indian's social structure such as housing and how they gather sources of substances with the insight of political views and constitution of warfare.

The essential tribal units of the Creeks were called Idalwa or Towns that resembled of a Greek city-state. Creeks did not have one single tribe but a collection of other tribes, the oldest town appeared to have been Cusseta, Coweta, Arbeka, Coosa, and Tuckabatchee. By the 18th century the Creek Nation had up to sixty Towns. These Towns were spilt into two categories the Red Towns meaning the conduct or war, and the White Towns meaning peace. Local representation by each Town was done by a micco or chief. Each micco was elected for life by the Town council which a micco chaired. The Town was arranged in a public square which had three structures. The chokofa or round building of mud-plastered sticks and poles; The Town Council conducted winter meetings in its warm interior; the square were they had a fire con...

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...tled when they migrated from west of the Mississippi and started multifaceted agriculture system near masses of water. The Creeks similarities of their political system compares to owner very own, it just comes to show how advanced these so called savages at the time quit sophisticated before contact. The language of the Creek Muscogee was put into a written language is a single to preservation of its tradition. Social organization is a significant meaning on there life style such as men hunt and harvest the women rise children and gather food and prepare it. The way they set housing up is a highly developed way of living for each individual family that prolongs there way of organization. Warfare and peace are always in conflict with each other but each are represented equally on the Nation Council were all political and civil disputes discussed in each Town.