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Apalachicola Band of Creek Indians


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his Tribe was established in the Additional Article of the 1823 Camp Moultrie Treaty. Federal Negotiators segregated 6 Friendly Creek Chiefs from the Seminole Indians of Florida and renamed them Apalachicola Band of Creek Indians after the river located alongside the 20 Square mile reservation granted to the tribe. Apalachicola Chiefs were: Neamathla, Econchati Micco, Mulatto King, Phillip Emarthla, John Blount and Cochrane (AKA)Tuski Hadjo. Chief Blount's reserve remains an active city in the Florida Panhandle after Chief Blount's Band removed to Texas in 1834. Chief Blount died shortly after after arrival leaving less than Forty survivors in an area that became Polk County, Texas. Apalachicola Band members remaining in Florida during the Second Seminole War were removed in 1839 to Arkansas Indian territory listed as Seminole. A Census of Five Apalachicola Towns was completed in May 1833 (Westcott Census).

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U.S. Government in the Second Article of the Treaty with Florida Indians

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