Coweta (tribal town)
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)Coweta was a
Coweta was located on the Chattahoochee River in what the Spanish called Apalachicola Province now in the modern state of Alabama. It was a central trading city of the Lower Towns of the Mucogee Confederacy. Members of the tribal town were also known as Caouitas or Caoüita.[2][p. 391]
The Cherokee language name for all the Lower Creek is Anikhawitha.[2][p. 391]
Notable members
- William McIntosh (1775–1825)
- Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700–1767)
- Emperor Brim (died 1733)
- Malatchi (1720-1756)
Notes
- ^ Isham, Theodore and Blue Clark. "Creek (Mvskoke)." Archived 2010-07-20 at the Wayback Machine Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Retrieved 20 Aug 2012.
- ^ ISBN 0-16-072300-0.
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