Poarch Creek Reservation
The Poarch Creek Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation of the Creek near Atmore , Alabama (northeast of Mobile , Alabama). It is home to the Poarch Band of Creek Indians , who were the only Native American people in Alabama to receive government recognition.
About 1,000 of the 2,340 members of the tribe live in the reserve. The Poarch Band also owns other trust land properties in the states of Alabama and Florida .
history
Most of the creeks were driven westward after the Creek War and the Treaty of Fort Jackson in 1814. In the 1940s, the tribal members who remained in Alabama organized themselves politically under their tribal leader Calvin McGhee and were ultimately able to achieve recognition of the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation as a Federal Indian reservation in 1984 . The tribal government has been running a " Bingo Palace " for self-financing since 1990 and maintains tourist infrastructure.
Web links
credentials
- ^ "History of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians" ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last visited on May 7, 2007.
- ↑ a b U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, "Alabama: Poarch Creek Reservation," PDF , last accessed May 7, 2007
- ^ Paredes, J. Anthony. "Federal Recognition and the Poarch Creek Indians" in Peredes, J. Anthony, ed. Indians of the Southeastern United States in the Late 20th Century (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1992), p. 121
