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Native American Tribes in Georgia

Guale

Apalachee

Guale was a Native American chiefdom that lived on the coasts of present-day Georgia and Florida.

During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the Guale society was nearly completely eradicated from epidemics of European diseases and inter-tribal warfare.

Creek

The Apalachee were a people that lived in the area of the Florida Panhandle. Hernando de Soto's expedition in the 16th century encountered them

The Lower Muskogee Creek Tribe in southwest Georgia is part of the Creek Nation located east of the Mississippi. The Principal Chief (or Mico) is Vonnie McCormick and they live on a reservation in Whigham, Georgia.

They were one of the tribes that were relocated with the Inidan Removal Act in 1825, and laws limiting the rights of the Creek people weren't officially removed until 1980.

They sold to Great Britain their territory between the Savannah and Ogeechee ribers, and were a numerous and powerful tribe. For a century before they were removed, the tribes that made up the Creek confederacy lived in 50 towns and spoke 6 distinct languages.

Several Spanish explorers passed through their territory. The Creeks were treaty allies of the colonies of South Carolina and Georgia and were hostile to the Spanish in Florida.

The survivors migrated to other tribes, and joined with the remnants of them to eventually become the Yamahasee.

They were 'discovered' by French explorers headed by Jean Ribault in 1562. The Spanish, when they established themselves in Florida, brought the Guale into their mission system, and the Guale rebelled several times against Spanish rule. They were nearly completely gone by the time James Oglethorpe founded the Province of Georgia in 1733.

They lived between the Aucilla River and the Ochlockonee River, at the start of Apalachee Bay, the reason that the Europeans called them Apalachees.

They had a severe population reduction because of tribal warfare, European-disease-caused epidemics, and European encroachment on tribal land.

The survivors ended up integrating with other groups, like the Creek Confederacy, Spanish territory, or modern-day Louisiana. Today, about 300 people identify as Apalachee.

Hodge, Frederick Webb, Compiler. The Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Bureau of American Ethnology, Government Printing Office. 1906. AccessGenealogy.com. Web. 7 November 2013. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek-tribe.htm - Last updated on Jul 1st, 2013

Swanton, John R. The Indian Tribes of North America. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 145. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office. 1953. AccessGenealogy.com. Web. 7 November 2013. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/guale-indians.htm - Last updated on Apr 29th, 2012

works cited

Swanton, John R. The Indian Tribes of North America. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 145. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office. 1953. AccessGenealogy.com. Web. 8 November 2013. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/apalachee-indians.htm - Last updated on Oct 13th, 2013

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