Columbus is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of the U.S. state of Georgia.Columbus lies on the Chattahoochee River directly across from Phenix City, Alabama.It is the county seat of Muscogee County, with which it officially merged in 1970. Columbus is the second-largest city in Georgia (after Atlanta), and fields the state's fourth-largest metropolitan …

The Muscogee Nation, or Muscogee (Creek) Nation, is a federally recognized Native American tribe based in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.The nation descends from the historic Muscogee Confederacy, a large group of indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands.Official languages include Muscogee, Yuchi, Natchez, Alabama, and Koasati, with Muscogee …

The cultural assimilation of Native Americans refers to a series of efforts by the United States to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream European–American culture between the years of 1790 and 1920. George Washington and Henry Knox were first to propose, in the American context, the cultural assimilation of Native Americans. They formulated a policy to …

The term Five Civilized Tribes was applied by European Americans in the colonial and early federal period in the history of the United States to the five major Native American nations in the Southeast—the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole. Americans of European descent classified them as "civilized" because they had adopted attributes of the …

People. Muscogee, also known as Creek, Native Americans; Amber Creek (1982–1997), American murder victim; Mitch Creek (born 1992), Australian basketball player; Other uses. Creek or Muscogee language, a language of the Native American people; Creek County, Oklahoma; Creek Audio, a British hi-fi company; TH-67 Creek, a U.S. Army variant of the Bell …

John Quincy Adams (/ ˈ k w ɪ n z i / (); July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.He previously served as the eighth United States Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825. During his long diplomatic and political career, Adams also served as an ambassador, …

The Cayuga (Cayuga: Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, "People of the Great Swamp") are one of the five original constituents of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), a confederacy of Native Americans in New York.The Cayuga homeland lies in the Finger Lakes region along Cayuga Lake, between their league neighbors, the Onondaga to the east and the Seneca to the west. Today Cayuga …

The Columbus, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and colloquially known as the Chattahoochee Valley, is an area consisting of six counties in Georgia and one county in Alabama, anchored by the city of Columbus.As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 296,506 (though a July 1, 2016 estimate placed the population at …

Fort Benning was the site of the Scout dog school of the United States during the Vietnam War, where the dogs trained to detect ambushes in enemy terrain got their initial training, before being transferred to Vietnam for further advanced courses.. Fort Benning also had an urban village, McKenna Military Operations in Urban Terrain, built by Army engineers for urban training of …

This article may be in need of reorganization to comply with Wikipedia's layout guidelines. Please help by editing the article to make improvements to the overall structure. (November 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)The following is a list of colleges and universities in the U.S. state of Oklahoma

Chatham County (/ ˈ tʃ æ t ə m / CHAT-əm) is located in the U.S. state of Georgia, on the state's Atlantic coast. The county seat and largest city is Savannah.One of the original counties of Georgia, Chatham County was created February 5, 1777, and is named after William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham.. The U.S. Census Bureau's official 2020 population for Chatham County was …

Map highlightiing Muscogee County in Georgia This is a list of properties and districts in Muscogee County, Georgia that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Map all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap

History. Originally inhabited by the Muscogee people, by the 1840s three small settlements existed nearby: Plains of Dura, Magnolia Springs, and Lebanon. As railway access expanded into the region in response to increased cotton farming, these settlements coalesced closer to the new railway location. As businesses rapidly developed, local businessmen successfully petitioned …

History. Despite the forced removal of Creek Indians from Georgia and Alabama in 1836, some Creeks in the Tensaw district of Alabama maintained a distinct community around the small town of Poarch, with segregated schools established by 1908. The federal government held a tract of land at Poarch in trust for the Indians until 1924. In the 1940s the community began to organize …