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

• William McIntosh (1775–1825)
• Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700–1767)
• Emperor Brim (died 1733)
• Malatchi (1720-1756)

Notes

1. Isham, Theodore and Blue Clark. "Creek (Mvskoke)." 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.