Upper Creek

These settlers also divided the Muscogee and their allies into two divisions: the Upper Creeks, settlers of the northern Creek territory, and the Lower Creeks, who lived to the south and included smaller groups that spoke slightly different variants of Muskogean languages such as the Hitchiti and Alabama.

…lands of the Cherokee and Muskogee (a subdivision of Creek). As settlers pushed west, conflicts with these peoples broke out on a regular basis. Among the Muskogee, internal conflict also arose as the community struggled over whether to resist white encroachment and over what sorts of resistance, if any, should…