Cusseta (tribal town)

Cusseta, also known as Kasihta, was a Peace Town of the Lower Creeks, a division of the Muscogee Creek Confederacy. It was located in what is now the state of Georgia near the Ocmulgee River.[1] It was one of the two major towns of the Lower Creek, with a population of 1,918 in 1832.

Origins

According to Muscogee oral history, early Creeks from Ocmulgee settled Cusseta and Coweta, approximately around 900–1000 CE.[2]

18th–19th centuries

After the Yamasee War, the people of Cusseta moved from the Chattahoochee River and rebuilt their town on the Ocmulgee River.[1] Until the 1830s forced removal of the Creek Indians from Georgia and Alabama, Cusseta was one of the oldest and most significant Creek towns. The census of 1832–33 recorded 1,918 residents living in Cusseta.[1]

At the town on 24 March 1832, representatives of the Creek Nation signed the Treaty of Cusseta, ceding all the Nation's lands east of the Mississippi River to the United States as part of Indian Removal. They were to receive territory in exchange west of the Mississippi, in what was then called Indian Territory.

Today

Lawson Army Airfield in Fort Benning was developed on the former site of Cusseta.

Notes
  1. "History." Archived 2012-04-14 at the Wayback Machine Unified Government Offices of Cusseta-Chattahoochee County. 2004. Retrieved 20 Aug 2012.
  2. Isham, Theodore and Blue Clark. "Creek (Mvskoke)." Archived July 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Oklahoma History Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Retrieved 29 Oct 2013.
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