Muscogee -
A Study of the Creek Indians - the original inhabitants of much of Alabama and Georgia.

Native Americans in North Georgia -
Known as Moundbuilders, these early Americans used waterways to create an advanced civilization from northeast Georgia to New Mexico, Wisconsin to New Orleans.

Trail of Tears -
Between 1790 and 1830 the population of Georgia increased six-fold. The western push of the settlers created a problem. Georgians continued to take Native American lands and force them into the frontier. By 1825 the Lower Creek had been completely removed from the state under provisions of the Treaty of Indian Springs. By 1827 the Creek were gone.

The Cherokee had long called western Georgia home. The Cherokee Nation continued in their enchanted land until 1828. It was then that the rumored gold, for which De Soto had relentlessly searched, was discovered in the North Georgia mountains.