Creek Lands Seized: Forced Migration Begins After Treaty
The Creek Nation ceded its last remaining lands in Georgia through the Treaty of Indian Springs, a deal signed by a minority faction and later declared fraudulent by the federal government itself. Despite the treaty's illegitimacy, Georgia enforced the removal, forcing thousands of Creek people westward and establishing the brutal pattern of dispossession that culminated in the Trail of Tears.
February 12, 1825
201 years ago
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