The Confederacy shared a common trade language and their towns were large and permanent with smaller outlying villages. The towns were well organized with central plazas that were used for ceremonies and games. A Chief governed the town and each year the sacred fire was rekindled at the Green Corn Festival.

By the 1700's, the Creek towns were spreading. The Creeks were an agrarian society as described by early accounts. The white man wrote, "the land was well fenced with a good stock of cattle, horses and hogs, surrounded by fields of corn, rice and potatoes." When the expansion of the United States began in earnest, times soon changed for the Confederacy.

In 1812, the Creeks aligned with the British in a War with the United States. Andrew Jackson led his army of Tennessee volunteers, and with the defeat of the British came the defeat of the Creek Confederacy. A condition of the treaty ending the war was that the Creeks would cede 20 million acres of prime land to the Southern states. This marked the beginning of the end for the Creek Nation.

An entire nation of Native Americans were now relegated to living on land along the banks of the Chattahoochee River.

Without land, the Creeks began to assimilate into the white society, which the white settlers saw as a threat to land acquisition. To thwart this perceived threat, a treaty was negotiated with Creek Chief William McIntosh in which all of the Lower Creek land was ceded to Georgia. The Treaty of Indian Springs was the end of the once powerful Creek Confederacy.

Within two years, the remaining Creeks were forced off all their land and began to move into the uninhabited lands that the white settlers thought of as waste land. Many of the Creeks found their way to the swamp land of lower Georgia and Florida, where many  Creeks still live.

The final chapter in this long and tragic journey came in 1826. The United States negotiated the Treaty of Washington, which would provide the Creeks with land in Georgia forever. However, the Governor of Georgia, under pressure from expansionists, did not honor the treaty. By 1827, with the infamous Creek Removal to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River, a centuries-old way of life in the Southeast was gone forever.