Coweta (tribal town)

Coweta was a tribal town and one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Confederacy[1] in what is now the Southeast United States, along with Kasihta (Cusseta), Abihka, and Tuckabutche.[2]

Coweta was located on the Chattahoochee River in what the Spanish called Apalachicola Province now in the modern state of Alabama. It was a central trading city of the Lower Towns of the Mucogee Confederacy. Members of the tribal town were also known as Caouitas or Caoüita.[2][p. 391]

The Cherokee language name for all the Lower Creek is Anikhawitha.[2][p. 391]

Coweta (located to the right) as portrayed in Henry Schenck Tanner's 1830 The Traveler's Pocket Map of Alabama.

Notable members

Notes
  1. Isham, Theodore and Blue Clark. "Creek (Mvskoke)." Archived 2010-07-20 at the Wayback Machine Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Retrieved 20 Aug 2012.
  2. Walker, Willard B.; Creek Confederacy Before Removal; Sturtevant, William C. (general editor) and Fogelson, Raymond D. (volume editor); Handbook of North American Indians: Southeast: Volume 14; Washington DC; Smithsonian Institution; 2004; ISBN 0-16-072300-0.
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