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The Alabama Tuskegee moved south
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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While part of these people [Tuskegee] may have removed to the south to join their friends among the Creeks, the majority were probably absorbed in the surrounding Cherokee population. A few maps, such as one of the early Homann maps and the Seale map of the early part of the 18th century, place Tuskegee near the headwaters of the Coosa. This may be intended to represent the Tennessee band of Tuskegee or it may show that the migration of the Alabama Tuskegee southward was a comparatively late movement, something which took place late in the seventeenth century or very early in the eighteenth. The Tuskegee are placed on the Coosa north of the Abihka Indians on the Couvens and Mortier map of the early part of tbe eighteenth century. Perhaps these were the southern band mentioned by Adair, in the badly misprinted form Tae-keo-ge, as one of those which the Muskogee had "artfully decoyed to incorporate with them."1 He is confirmed in substance by Milfort, who states that they were a tribe who had suffered severely from their enemies and had in consequence sought refuge with the Creeks.2 (Swanton)
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