Coweta tribal town

Coweta was a

tribal town A tribal town (Muscogee ''talwa'', Hitchiti ''okla'') was a form of political and social organization of people in what is now the southeastern United States from at least the 16th century into the 19th century. It had aspects of both a town and a ...

and one of the four mother towns of the

Muscogee Confederacy The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy ( in the Muscogee language), are a group of related indigenous (Native American) peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands"Creek (Mvskoke)."
''Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.'' Retrieved 20 Aug 2012. in what is now the Southeast United States, along with

Kasihta Cusseta, also known as Kasihta, was a Peace Town of the Lower Towns, a division of the Muscogee Confederacy. It was located in what the Spanish called Apalachicola Province on the Chattahoochee River, then in what is now the state of Georgia near ...

(Cusseta),

Abihka Abihka was one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Creek confederacy. ''Abihka'' is also sometimes used to refer to all Upper Creek (or ''Muscogee'') people. History Origins The Abihka were the remnants of the 16th century "Chiefdom of Coosa. ...

, and

Tuckabutche Tukabatchee or Tuckabutche ( Creek: ''Tokepahce'' ) is one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Creek confederacy.Isham, Theodore and Blue Clark"Creek (Mvskoke)." ''Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.'' ...

.Walker, Willard B.; ''Creek Confederacy Before Removal''; Sturtevant, William C. (general editor) and Fogelson, Raymond D. (volume editor); ''Handbook of North American Indians: Southeast'': Volume 14; Washington DC; Smithsonian Institution; 2004; . Coweta was located on the

Chattahoochee River The Chattahoochee River forms the southern half of the Alabama and Georgia border, as well as a portion of the Florida - Georgia border. It is a tributary of the Apalachicola River, a relatively short river formed by the confluence of the Chatt ...

in what the Spanish called Apalachicola Province now in the modern state of

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. It was a central trading city of the Lower Towns of the Mucogee Confederacy. Members of the tribal town were also known as ''Caouitas'' or ''Caoüita''.^{. 391/sup>

The Cherokee language

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Cherokee or Tsalagi ( chr, ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ, ) is an endangered-to- moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. ''Ethnologue'' states that there were 1,520 Cherokee speak ...
name for all the Lower Creek is ''Anikhawitha.''^{. 391/sup>

Notable members

* William McIntosh

William McIntosh (1775 – April 30, 1825),Hoxie, Frederick (1996)pp. 367-369/ref> was also commonly known as ''Tustunnuggee Hutke'' (White Warrior), was one of the most prominent chiefs of the Creek Nation between the turn of the nineteenth ce ...
(1775–1825)
* Mary Musgrove

Mary Musgrove (Muscogee name, Coosaponakeesa, c. 1700–1765) was a leading figure in early Georgia history. Mary was the daughter of Edward Griffin, a trader from Charles Town in the Province of Carolina, of English heritage, and a Muscogee Cree ...
(ca. 1700–1767)
* Emperor Brim Emperor Brim, also known as Hoboyetly, (died 1733) was a Muscogee ''mico,'' or ruler, of Coweta who rose to power through a series of shifting alliances with France, England, and Spain.

His two sons, Hollata Brim and Seepeycoffee Brim, both late ...
(died 1733)
* Malatchi (1720-1756)

Notes

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Muscogee tribal towns
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