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  1. carol,st.clair and etowah counties are in this area.mostly daddies folfs tho.

  2. Tamara Heil Turner, do your kids know this little tidbit? What a heritage they have.

  3. I think that map is in error. The orange area was Chickasaw land, not Choctaw.

    1. Choctaw is correct. Chickasaw were much further south.

  4. The start spangled banner?

  5. There was no crisis the Indians were simply trying to keep their land from the people who came and forcibly took it from them. The Native People were lied to, abused, murdered and all by people who invaded and stole the lane from it’s rightful owners.

    1. Why don’t you go tell the Native American descendants whos family was massacred at fort mims see what they have to say

      1. The massacre at fort mims was in retaliation for the killing of. Indians at burnt corn creek, by the militia. The black population had no rights as slaves, the Indians had no rights because they were for the most part not citizens of the U.S. Until Wei after 1900′ it was 1924 defore they had the right of suffer age.

  6. Not just here ,they took all over the county

  7. Your tribal land map is wrong. The area you have shaded you have labeled Choctaw, belonged to the Chickasaw. The Chickasaw have been written out of history and this is exactly how it happens. You are forgiven but please update your graphic with proper tribal land labels.

  8. Where was the Porch Creek’s tribal land??

  9. […] Jackson commissioned Francis Scott Key, who was Attorney General for Washington D. C., to Alabama in order to work out a compromise between […]

  10. Its funny he wrote about the land of the free and owned slaves. go figure

    1. That was written during the revolutionary war , not the civil war, at Fort McHenry in Maryland.

    2. I am sure you have to know there slaves before the Civil War.

      Slavery and American Colonization Society[edit]

      Key purchased his first slave in 1800 or 1801, and owned six slaves in 1820.[14] Mostly in the 1830s, Key manumitted seven slaves, one of whom (Clem Johnson) continued to work for him for wages as his farm’s foreman, supervising several slaves.[15]

      Key throughout his career also represented several slaves seeking their freedom in court (for free), as well as several masters seeking return of their runaway human property.[16][17] Key, Judge William Leigh of Halifax and bishop William Meade were administrators of the will of their friend John Randolph of Roanoke, who died without children and left a will directing his executors to free his more than four hundred slaves. Over the next decade, beginning in 1833, the administrators fought to enforce the will and provide the freed slaves land to support themselves.[18]

      Key was considered a decent master, and publicly criticized slavery’s cruelties, so much that after his death a newspaper editorial stated “So actively hostile was he to the peculiar institution that he was called ‘The Nigger Lawyer’ …. because he often volunteered to defend the downtrodden sons and daughters of Africa. Mr. Key convinced me that slavery was wrong–radically wrong.”[19]

      Key was a founding member and active leader of the American Colonization Society, and its predecessor influential Maryland branch, the primary goal of which was to send free African-Americans back to Africa.[16] However, he was removed from the board in 1833 as its policies shifted toward abolitionist.
      I know ou have

    3. David Buckner war of 1812.

    4. Thank you for the help . it was war of 1812. I went to Fort McHenry. When I was in cub scouts. Been a while.

  11. Ah, yess. That good old 4th grade Alabama history. So cool to hear how our ancestors got started and the two wars played out here.

  12. Preuit fami!y in Al. abt @1820

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