The Eufaula people were a tribe of

Native Americans in the United States Native Americans, also known as American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Americans, and other terms, are the Indigenous peoples of the mainland United States ( Indigenous peoples of Hawaii, Alaska and territories of the United States ...

, located in the Southeast. A

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-speaking people, they possibly broke off from the Kealedji or Hilibi tribe."The Eufaula Tribe."
''Access Genealogy.'' (retrieved 8 September 2010) They were part of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy. Some Eufaula lived along 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 became the state of

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. The

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Upper Creek 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 WoodlandsTreaty of Indian Springs (1821). They were unsuccessful, and the very disadvantageous

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was enacted which forced them to move across the river in

Eufaula, Alabama Eufaula is the largest city in Barbour County, Alabama, United States. As of the 2010 census the city's population was 13,137. History The site along the Chattahoochee River that is now modern-day Eufaula was occupied by three Muscogee Cree ...

, where a bike trail commemorates their story.Yoholo-Micco Creek Indian Trail
/ref> In 1836 they were forced further west again, during the

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. Their people were the only Upper Creek town that moved to

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; they settled near what developed as

Eufaula, Oklahoma Eufaula is a city and county seat of McIntosh County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 2,813 at the 2010 census, an increase of 6.6 percent from 2,639 in 2000. Eufaula is in the southern part of the county, north of McAlester and ...

, named for them and their towns.

Namesakes

Their name is preserved in the modern cities of

and Eufaula, Oklahoma; and also with lakes, specifically Lake Eufaula in Oklahoma and Lake Eufaula in Alabama.

Notes

Biography of Yoholo-Micco and his son
in ''Indians of North America'', c. 1844 Muscogee Native American tribes in Georgia (U.S. state) Native American tribes in Alabama {{NorthAm-native-stub