Talladega County Native American Records
Native American Records were mostly spoken records until the Government decided it was necessary to keep track of the Indians. This page will provide you with links in your research for your Native ancestors.
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Indian Tribes of Alabama
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Cherokee Indian Tribe In the latter part of the eighteenth century some Cherokee worked their way down the Tennessee River as far as Muscle Shoals, constituting the Chickamauga band. They had settlements at Turkeytown on the Coosa, Willstown on Wills Creek, and Coldwater near Tuscumbia,
occupied jointly with the Creeks and destroyed by the Whites in 1787. All of their Alabama territory was surrendered in treaties made between 1807 and 1835.
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Chickasaw Indian Tribe The Chickasaw had a few settlements in northwestern Alabama, part of which State was within their hunting territories. At one time they also had a town called Ooe-asa (Wi-aca) among the Upper Creeks
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Choctaw Indian Tribe This tribe hunted over and occupied, at least temporarily, parts of southwestern Alabama beyond the Tombigbee.
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Creek Indian Tribe The Creeks were early divided geographically into two parts, one called Upper Creeks, on the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers; the other, the Lower Creeks, on the lower Chattahoochee and Ocmulgee. The former were also divided at times into the Coosa branch or Abihka and the
Tallapoosa branch and the two were called Upper and Middle Creeks respectively. Bartram (1792) tends to confuse the student by denominating all of the true Creeks "Upper Creeks" and the Seminole "Lower Creeks." The dominant Muskogee gradually gathered about them, and to a certain extent under them, the
Apalachicola,
Hitchiti, Okmulgee,
Sawokli, Chiaha, Osochi,
Yuchi, Alabama, Tawasa, Pawokti,
Muklasa, Koasati, Tuskegee, a part of the Shawnee, and for a time some
Yamasee, not counting broken bands and families from various quarters.
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