Editing Five Civilized Tribes (section)

===Muscogee===
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The [[Muscogee]], or Creek, are originally from present-day Alabama, [[Florida]], Georgia, and [[South Carolina]].<ref>[http://anpa.ualr.edu/digital_library/Additional%20Texts%20-%20Yuchi%20.htm Transcribed documents] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213170748/http://anpa.ualr.edu/digital_library/Additional%20Texts%20-%20Yuchi%20.htm|date=February 13, 2012}} Sequoyah Research Center and the American Native Press Archives</ref> They resided there from approximately 1500 AD until they were forcibly displaced by the American government in the early 19th century. ''Mvskoke'' is their name in the Muskogee language. The Muscogee Creek were not one tribe but a confederacy of several, each of which had their own distinct land and sometimes dialects or languages in the Muskogean family.

Starting in 1836, the US government forced them to remove west of the Mississippi along with the other Southeast tribes to what was designated as Indian Territory. About 20,000 Muscogee members were forced to walk the [[Trail of Tears]], the same number as the Choctaw.<ref name="muscogeenation-nsn.gov">{{cite web |url=http://www.muscogeenation-nsn.gov/Pages/History/history.html |title=Muscogee (Creek) Nation |publisher=Muscogeenation-nsn.gov |access-date=2020-07-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151008074719/http://www.muscogeenation-nsn.gov/Pages/History/history.html |archive-date=2015-10-08 }}</ref> Modern Muscogee live primarily in Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Their language, ''[[Creek language|Mvskoke]]'', is a member of the Creek branch of the [[Muskogean languages|Muskogean language family]].

Federally recognized tribes descended from the Creek Confederacy include the [[Muscogee (Creek) Nation|Muscogee Creek Nation]], [[Kialegee Tribal Town]], and [[Thlopthlocco Tribal Town]] in Oklahoma; [[Poarch Band of Creek Indians]] in Alabama, and [[Alabama–Quassarte Tribal Town]].

The Seminole people originally included many of Creek origin, but developed as a separate culture, through a process of [[ethnogenesis]], before Indian removal.