(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) By 1836, most of the willing Native-Americans had been removed to the land in the west, and…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Holy Ground Campaign And Battle The principal campaign and engagement between the Creeks and the whites…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) When the forced removal started in 1838, the United States troops built forts in Alabama and other…
Choctaw Crossing Places on the Tombigbee River By H. S. Halbert (Unedited transcription from Publications of the Alabama Historical Society, Miscellaneous.. Volume 1 by…
Excerpts from the History of Coosa County, Alabama Chapter One By Rev. George E. Brewer (Transcribed from The Alabama Historical Quarterly, Vol. 04, No.…
Indian Trails and Early Roads written in 1900 by Peter J. Hamilton Scroll down to read story (Unedited Transcription from Publications of the Alabama Historical…
"The Creek Nation was once one of the largest and most powerful Indian groups in the Southeast." Much of their land was lost as…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Some men realized that a profit could be made moving the Native-Americans to the Indian Territory. Companies…
This is an excerpt from a book The History of Coosa County, Alabama written by Rev. George E. Brewer before 1922. Please consider the time period when it…
Abihka was one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Creek confederacy. The Abihka were the remnants of the 16th century "Chiefdom of…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Treaties And Native-American Land Titles On June 16, 1802, the Creek Indians ceded…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The removal of the Choctaws in 1831 became a model for other tribes to be moved to…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Tennessee Responds To The Call On the 18th day of September, the people of Nashville assembled…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The moving of a whole nation of people from one state to another would be a massive…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Establishing “the Indian Territory in the West, was the largest undertaking a local government ever attempted by…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) When Napoleon was conquering nations in Europe, a rumor of a possible transfer…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The Chickasaws had long been allied with the Choctaws, and there is a tradition that many centuries…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) After the Burnt Corn battle, McQueen planned to attack Hawkins at the Indian Agency at Coweta,…
(Excerpt from Alabama FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) On the establishment of the Independence of the United States, the State of…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The Cherokee Indians, once a powerful nation inhabiting the fine country from the Ohio to the Tennessee…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) On the road leading from St. Stephens in Washington County, Alabama, lived the renowned Choctaw Chief Pushmataha.…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) WARNING: Some of the words in this article may be offensive to readers.…
This is an excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) The power of the Creek Nation was crushed at the Battle of Horseshoe…
[T.S. Woodward settled was in Alabama at a very early date. In this letter to a newspaper editor in Alabama written in 1858, he…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Pushmataha Offers Assistance After Fort Mims was destroyed, the Red Sticks were in a high state…
Native Americans Deceived By British This story is also an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) British…
Patron+ member story (Transcribed excerpt from HISTORY OF JACKSON COUNTY, ALABAMA by John Robert Kennamer, Decatur, Al 1935: Condensed by Josephine Lindsay Bass on…
(Scroll to the bottom to see a film of Wetumpka from around the 1930s) The county seat of Elmore County, Alabama is Wetumpka. Located…
This story is also in the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) Once Christopher Columbus discovered America, other explorers from…
This is an excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) The last and decisive engagement between the Creek Indians and the United States…
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