Resources

Resources

Please bear in mind that some of the earliest accounts were written by non-Indians who, though well-intentioned, did not have a deep understanding of the complexities of the Indian community and way of life. Some interpretations are ethnocentristic or incomplete. Though they are important to our body of knowledge, it will be wise to temper these accounts by studying the oral wisdom stories and legends passed from generation to generation by the Creek elders.

Chaudhuri, Jean, A Sacred Path, The Way of the Muscogee Creeks, UCLA American Indian Studies Center, Los Angeles, CA 2001

Winn, William W., The Old Beloved Path, Daily Life Among the Indians of the Chattahoochee River Valley, 1992, Historic Chattahoochee Commission, P.O. Box 33, Eufaula, AL 36072 www.hcc-al-ga.org

Fundaburke, Emma Lila & Foreman, Mary Douglass, Editors, Sun Circles and Human Hands, The Southeastern Indians- Art and Industry, 1957, 1985, American Bicentennial Museum, P.O. Box 1082, Fairhope, AL 36533

Debo, Angie, Road to Disappearance: A History of the Creek Indians, 1941, 1988 U. of Ok. Press

Debo, Angie, And Still the Waters Run, The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1940, 1968, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

Swanton, John R., Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors

Swanton, John R. Creek religion and Medicine

Swanton, John R., The Indians of the Southeastern United States, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, reprint from 1946 publication.

Wright, J. Leitch, The Only Land They Knew, American Indians in the Old South, U of Nebraska Press, 1981

Etheridge, Robbie, Creek Country, The Creek Indians and Their World, U. of North Carolina Press, 2003

Hudson, Charles, The Southeastern Indians, U of Tennessee Press, 1976

O'Brien, Sean Michael, In Bitterness and In Tears, Andrew Jackson's Destruction of the Creeks and Seminoles The Lions Press, Guilford, CT, 2003

Foreman, Grant The Five Civilized Tribes, 1934 U. of Oklahoma Press

Lewis, David & Ann T. Jordan, Creek Indian Medicine Ways: The Enduring Power of Muskoke Religion

Martin, Jack B. & Margaret M. Mauldin, A Dictionary of Creek/Muscogee: with notes on the Florida & Oklahoma Seminole Dialects U. of Nebraska Press.

Milner, Richard S., Northwest Florida Place Names of Indian Origin 1998 Includes historical information on events in the sites covered. http://www.snyderweb.com/placenames/book_toc.htm

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~texlance/main.htm Creek Indian Researcher, Includes many links for genealogy and historical study

http://www.millennium-exhibit.org/milanich1.htm Cultural Legacies of Florida

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/military/indian/creek/ Treaties with the Creeks

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/seminole/seminolehist.htm Seminole

History

http://floridahistory.com This site covers DeSoto's conquest of the Southeast in 1540. It includes many insights into the life ways of native people at this time of first contact through accounts written by some of the surviving members of the expedition.

http://nativehistory.tripod.com/id15.html Native American Oral Traditions &

Archaeological Research

http://www.peopleofonefire.com/

http://www.history.com/shows/america-unearthed/videos#america-unearthed-american-mayan-secrets 

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/talamachusee  Review and order books by Richard L.Thornton

Creek History Sites

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmamcrk4/crkchfndx.html

Etowah Mounds

http://www.lostworlds.org/etowah_mounds.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20030628144520/ngeorgia.com/parks/etowah.html

Ocmulgee Mounds

http://www.lostworlds.org/ocmulgee_mounds.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20021019004215/www.ngeorgia.com/history/early.html

Creek Languages

Among the Peoples of the Creek Confederacy, were groups speaking several dialects of Muscogean and other languages. We offer these links for an overview and a closer look at each of the separate Southeastern Peoples who made up the Creek Nation and a fair evaluation of the situations they faced from the time of first contact.

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/georgia/

http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/creek/creekhist.htm

http://www.hcc-al-ga.org/folk_index.cfm

http://www.native-languages.org/fammus_words.htm

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2752

http://www.wm.edu/linguistics/creek/

http://www.native-languages.org/muskogee.htm

Creek language archive: Creek hymns

http://www.wm.edu/linguistics/creek/songs/land1905.pdf

http://nativehistory.tripod.com/id15.html

More on the Creeks at Pensacola Historical Museum

Article of Interest: Museums and their changing respect for the rights of Native Peoples: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/05.31/18-artifacts.html