• The Battle of Taliwa was fought in Ball Ground, Georgia, in 1755. The battle was part of a larger campaign of the Cherokee against the Muscogee Creek...
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    These raids came to a head at the Battle of Taliwa in 1755, at present-day Ball Ground, Georgia, with the defeat of the Muscogee. In 1721, the Cherokee...
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    Nancy Ward (category People of Tennessee in the American Revolution)
    Ka-Ti Walker and Littlefellow Hiskyteehee Fivekiller. In the 1755 Battle of Taliwa, when the Cherokee fought their traditional enemy, the Muscogee (Creek)...
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    land. After two years of fighting, the Cherokee won the land in the Battle of Taliwa. The Creek people were forced to move south of the Chattahoochee River...
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  • one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Creek confederacy. The Abihka were the remnants of the 16th century "Chiefdom of Coosa." The bulk of the...
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    The Poarch Band of Creek Indians (/pɔːrtʃ/ PORCH;) are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans with reservation lands in lower Alabama. As Mvskoke...
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  • Tukabatchee (category Indigenous peoples of North America stubs)
    Tukabatchee or Tuckabutche (Creek: Tokepahce ) is one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Creek confederacy. The pre-removal tribal town was located...
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  • Red Sticks (category Indigenous topics of the Southeastern Woodlands)
    This report would eventually lead to the Battle of New Orleans six months later. The time in question was one of increasing pressure on Creek territory...
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  • This is a list of plants documented to have been traditionally used by the Cherokee, and how they are used. Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides (commonly known...
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    Osceola (category Native Americans of the Seminole Wars)
    of the Second Seminole War, 1835–1842. University Presses of Florida. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-8130-1097-7. At the time of the Creek War, after the Battle of...
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    take refuge in Kansas. They fought at the Battle of Round Mountain, Battle of Chusto-Talasah, and Battle of Chustenahlah, resulting in 2,000 deaths among...
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    Stomp dance (category Indigenous culture of the Northeastern Woodlands)
    edges of the square facing the cardinal directions. Arbors are constructed upon the flat edges of the square in which the men sit facing one of the four...
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    Muscogee language (category Indigenous languages of Oklahoma)
    spoken by Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole people, primarily in the US states of Oklahoma and Florida. Along with Mikasuki, when it is spoken by the Seminole...
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    by place names - Sand Creek, the Battle of Washita, Wounded Knee - and by their tragic poetic codes - the Trail of Tears, the Long Walk, the Cheyenne...
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  • Creek mythology (category Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of North America)
    Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Their language, Mvskoke, is a member of the Eastern branch of the Muskogean language family. The Seminole are close kin to the...
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    Coushatta (category Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands)
    Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana. Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas The Koasati language is part of the Apalachee-Alabama-Koasati branch of the Muskogean languages...
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    people of Native Americans, originally from Alabama. They were members of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy, a loose trade and military organization of autonomous...
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  • Alliquippa is a key ally of the British. 1755: Cherokee leader Nancy Ward fights side-by-side with her husband at the Battle of Taliwa. When her husband is...
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  • This was the location of the Battle of Fowltown, a symbolically important but militarily very minor encounter. Chief Neamathla of Fowltown became embroiled...
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    Seminoles Battle of Burnt Corn College of the Muscogee Nation Crazy Snake Rebellion Etowah Indian Mounds Fushatchee Green corn ceremony List of sites and...
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  • Cherokee military history (category History of the Cherokee)
    the Battle of Taliwa in 1755 at present-day Ball Ground, Georgia with the defeat of the Muscogee Creek. The Creek had already withdrawn most of their...
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    Musicians, and Privates of the U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, Who Were Killed in Battle or Died of Disease. As Also the Names of Officers Who Were Distinguished...
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  • 5000 Montenegrin fighters after initial success and conquering Čevo. Battle of Taliwa - Cherokee defeat Muscogee Confederacy Guaraní War February - Sepé...
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  • Peter McQueen (category Chiefs of the Muscogee)
    warriors, at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814. Jackson's forces won. Altogether in the Creek War nearly 3,000 Creek died, many of the Upper Towns were...
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  • Four Mothers Society (category Indigenous topics of the Southeastern Woodlands)
    Mothers Nation is a religious, political, and traditionalist organization of Muscogee Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw people, as well as the Natchez...
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    Eufaula people (category Indigenous peoples of North America stubs)
    The Eufaula people were a tribe of Native Americans in the United States, located in the Southeast. A Muskogean-speaking people, they possibly broke off...
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    These raids came to a head at the Battle of Taliwa in 1755 (in present-day Ball Ground, Georgia), resulting in the defeat of the Muscogee. In 1721, the Cherokee...
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    originally inhabited by both the Cherokee and the Muscogee Creek, until the Battle of Taliwa, which took place in what later became Ball Ground in 1755, between...
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    William Weatherford (category People of the Creek War)
    up with another Ranger unit and maneuvered the Red Sticks into battle at the Battle of Holy Ground. Weatherford barely escaped capture, jumping from a...
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  • capital punishment of certain serious crimes. The responsibility for delivering this justice has traditionally fallen to the family or clan of the victim, usually...
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