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American Indians in Alabama

Alabama's indigenous history can be traced back more than 10,000 years, to the Paleoindian Period. Cultural and technological developments brought changes to the societies that inhabited what is now Alabama, with the most visible evidence of those changes being the remarkable earthen mounds built by the Mississippian people throughout the Southeast, in Alabama most notably at Moundville. By the time European fortune hunters and colonialist explorers arrived in the sixteenth century, the Indian groups in the Southeast had coalesced into the cultural groups known from the historic period: the Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, and Chickasaws, and smaller groups such as the Alabama-Coushattas and the Yuchis. As more Europeans and then U.S. settlers flooded into the Southeast, these peoples were subjected to continual assaults on their land, warfare, the spread of non-native diseases, and exploitation of their resources. In the 1830s, the majority of the Native Americans in Alabama were forced from their land to make way for cotton plantations and European American expansion. Today, the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians maintain their traditions on portions of their tribal homelands in the state.

Alabama Fever

Alabama Fever

Alexander McGillivray

Alexander McGillivray

Archaic Period

Archaic Period

Battle of Calabee Creek

Battle of Calabee Creek

Battle of Holy Ground

Battle of Holy Ground

Battle of Horseshoe Bend

Battle of Horseshoe Bend

Battle of Talladega

Battle of Talladega

Battle of Tallushatchee

Battle of Tallushatchee

Benjamin Hawkins

Benjamin Hawkins

Bernard Romans

Bernard Romans

Bottle Creek Site

Bottle Creek Site

Chattahoochee Indian Heritage Center

Chattahoochee Indian Heritage Center

Cherokee Indian Removal

Cherokee Indian Removal

Cherokees in Alabama

Cherokees in Alabama

Chickasaws in Alabama

Chickasaws in Alabama

Choctaws in Alabama

Choctaws in Alabama

Creek Indian Removal

Creek Indian Removal

Creeks in Alabama

Creeks in Alabama

Creek War of 1813-14

Creek War of 1813-14

David Moniac

David Moniac

David Taitt

David Taitt

Emperor Brim

Emperor Brim

Federal Road in Alabama

Federal Road in Alabama

First Treaty of Washington (1805)

First Treaty of Washington (1805)

Fort Mims Battle and Massacre

Fort Mims Battle and Massacre

Fort Tombecbe

Fort Tombecbe

Green Corn Ceremony

Green Corn Ceremony

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park

James Adair

James Adair

John Ross

John Ross

Mississippian Period

Mississippian Period

Moundville Archaeological Park

Moundville Archaeological Park

MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians

MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians

Native American Foodways

Native American Foodways

Opothle Yoholo

Opothle Yoholo

Paleoindian Period

Paleoindian Period

Plan of Civilization

Plan of Civilization

Pushmataha

Pushmataha

Russell Cave

Russell Cave

Sequoyah

Sequoyah

Stomp Dance

Stomp Dance

Treaty of Cusseta (1832)

Treaty of Cusseta (1832)

Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830)

Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek (1830)

Treaty of Indian Springs (1825)

Treaty of Indian Springs (1825)

Treaty of Fort Jackson

Treaty of Fort Jackson

Upper Creek Towns of the Historic Period

Upper Creek Towns of the Historic Period

William McIntosh

William McIntosh

William Weatherford

William Weatherford

Woodland Period

Woodland Period

Yuchis in Alabama

Yuchis in Alabama

Alabama-Coushattas in Alabama

Alabama-Coushattas in Alabama

Games of the Southeastern Indians

Games of the Southeastern Indians

Moundville Native American Festival

Moundville Native American Festival

Southeastern Indians and the American Revolution

Southeastern Indians and the American Revolution

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