(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…
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.…
Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Confrontation (Story continued below) Holy Ground Campaign And Battle The principal campaign and engagement between the Creeks and the whites…
"The Creek Nation was once one of the largest and most powerful Indian groups in the Southeast." Much of their land was lost as…
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…
(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…
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: 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: Banished Volume 8) The Chickasaws had long been allied with the Choctaws, and there is a tradition that many centuries…
ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Removal includes many of the speeches, letters and methods used by the U. S. Government to remove the Native Americans from…
(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: Confrontation (Story continued below) After the Burnt Corn battle, McQueen planned to attack Hawkins at the Indian Agency at Coweta,…
This is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) First Edition AND and ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Volume…
[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…
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 is an excerpt from the books ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Exploration: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 1) First Edition and ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS - Volume I…
(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: Confrontation (Story continued below) Jackson Protects Friendly Creeks General Jackson continued to wait for supplies while camped at Fort Strother.…
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…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) When Napoleon was conquering nations in Europe, a rumor of a possible transfer…
Millie Francis was the first woman and Native American to be awarded a medal from the U. S. Government. Millie was the daughter…
Note: The following has been transcribed from original text written in the late 1800s. Please make allowances for the harsh language used. The Cherokee…
Little Tallassee, four miles above Wetumpka, was later on the farm owned by Howell Rose, and not far from where he built his house.…
[Have you ever heard of this romantic Indian legend of Cheaha State Park? Scroll down to watch the film below of Cheaha from 1937]…
[This historic site is still surrounded by controversy as can be seen by the film at the end of the article. Most of the…
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