Creek tribe

Geography• Original residence:

-Georgia

-Alabama

-Florida

-North Carolina• Today: 2 tribes

-Oklahoma (1800’s)

-Original homeland

-Scattered

Society

• Basic unit: village

Families• Miko: cheif (male)• Tribal council:

decision making

Traditional lifestyle• Men: hunter (deer,

game, fish), warrior• Women: child care,

cooking, farming (corn, beans, squash)

• Both gender: storytelling, art, medicine

o Trading (jargon)

Home

• Settled villages with one square

• Single-family houses: plaster and rivercane walls with thatched roofs

• Circular buildings: ceremonies

• „Ball field”

• Palisades: walls

Without walls

With walls

Clothes

• Men: breechcloths, leather leggings

• Women: deerskin or woven fiber skirts and mantles

• Both: moccasins

• Warriors: complex tribal tattoos, bright red face

Warriors

Interesting facts

• Other name is Muskogee

• Afvcketv: stickball• Cradleboards• Dishes: cornbread,

soups• Traditional legends

and fairy tales

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