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10 Ways the Creek (Muscogee) Shaped the Early American Southeast

Suhail Ahmed

  The story of the early American South is often told as a clash between European empires and the young United States, but that version leaves out a crucial player: the Muscogee, often called Creek. Long before state borders and cotton kingdoms, Muscogee towns knit together a vast, river-laced world of trade, diplomacy, and adaptation. ...