From The Vault - Folklore of the Muscogee Creek People

[@kennypowers7334]

I've spent a lot of time in Old Creek territories in Alabama. Specifically Tallasee alabama (which is actually where the name of tulsa oklahoma originates) wetumpka and other areas along the Tallapoosa River. I can say from personal experience that the soul of these native people still resides in the air the pine the hardwoods the water and the winds. You can really feel it when you are alone in the wilderness out there. Its peaceful and at the same time eerie but strangely comforting at the same time.

[@michaelmetzger8802]

Creek people are still alive. You can have feelings without blaming it on the spirits of another culture. That is weird as shit.

[@that-weirdogirl]

@@michaelmetzger8802 They didn’t say Creek natives were extinct.

[@michaelmetzger8802]

@@that-weirdogirl They said "I can say from personal experience that the soul of these native people still resides in the air the pine the hardwoods the water and the winds" which pretty much sums up they way people look at all of us as we don't exist and what they don't understand as crazy mystical mythological magic.

[@that-weirdogirl]

@@michaelmetzger8802 Reread my previous reply.

[@michaelmetzger8802]

@@that-weirdogirl No. Claiming the spirits of people for the blame of bad feelings and mental illness and acting like there is not living creeks is ignorant.

[@ladyoftheveil8342]

I was once a stomp dancer and pow wow dancer in southern Alabama, Thank You Ma doe for this video

[@joshuastacy3893]

These are the most important kind of videos..

[@missmoxiemaesmith8287]

My mom is half Muskogee Creek Indian. She was born in Hanna, Ok. I miss going there when I was a kid to visit my grandpa’s family. They all lived in little towns in McIntosh county. My grandpa was born in Okmulgee. Thanks for this. Very informative 🙏

[@kennypowers7334]

You should go and visit yalls native lands along the tallapoosa river Alabama. Beautiful peaceful land.

[@MUGTOWN4LIFE]

I got family in Hanna. And I live in okmulgee right now. Did they go to stomp dance?

[@sheilaharjowhite]

We go to our grandma's, well the land to visit the family buried there. Spread my daddy's ashes there recently. Hanna changed not the same I guess ppl move away. I'm one who is a lost indian.

[@Coweta_Curios]

Great video, iam Choctaw and Creek. My 6x great grandfather was chief William McIntosh of the lower Creek.

[@culturecoroner]

The one who sold out the entire nation to the federal government and was then executed as a consequence?

[@brandon7482]

@@culturecoroner No, the one who worked with the U.S. government so that his tribe wouldn’t lose everything and not get anything in return. He was murdered in front of his wives and children by killers.

[@culturecoroner]

@@brandon7482 I see where you are coming from. Thank you for the perspective-widening.

[@unyieldingcreek1]

Thanks for uploading these, I had thought our family were mostly Choctaw and/or Cherokee, but come to find out the only relative we have on the dawes rolls was Muscogee. So, I am trying to learn all that I can about my relatives that until a few months ago I had no clue about.

[@lauranicholls9421]

I too really appreciate and cherish the spoken word. Thank you so much for sharing..🌬

[@markd.9042]

This is very beautiful

[@natasha_b2504]

Mvto for sharing with us.

[@fdincolo8564]

My father is the Arrington line of Muscogee!

[@LadyVishes87Deux]

In my tribe we have people who shape shift into owls. We call em stikinis.

[@Jamesbrown-md7qy]

I am keeper of the pass "Ocesse black drink crier" of the Yamasse/Seminole Muskogee nation

[@beauchamp90]

Mvto for uploading.

[@tllw2889]

she got the Eye pinned right on her dawg we so beyond unknowing how deep da trap is

[@nathanielanderson4898]

The story of how fire came to the people seems very credible to me.

[@GrannyGooseOnYouTube]

I hear so many similarities to European folklore as well as judeo-christian origin stories. Were all of these stories drawn from a Time preceding European contact, or is there perhaps some influence in which European stories were interlaced with the original Creek folklore and origin stories

[@08amyrawr]

Is there a hard copy of these stories up for sale? I would love to have these for my children to watch and learn the history of our people

[@MvskokeMedia]

Not to my knowledge, but I will let our graphic design department know and they might be able to develop one. MVTO!

[@that-weirdogirl]

@@MvskokeMedia I would love an update on this, if possible! Having these stories in a physical form is would be a gem for those who don’t have easy access to the internet, and I’m sure my cousins would LOVE to watch these with their kids. DVDs aren’t on the decline, right? Hope not.😭

[@sanjonn]

Thanks for uploading

[@fadetoblack1782]

So proud to have Creek blood and Cherokee blood tsitsalagi

[@therevolutionwillhavebanjos]

you're indigenous and yet you support the confederacy???? stecate toko tonces.

[@KingShakurI88]

Benjamin Franklin Perryman Aka Steek Cha Ko Me Co is my 3rd great grandfather

[@missym4162]

Very entertaining.

[@brecky384]

Mvto ❤️

[@LoveYourself-1970]

My Grandma wass Alabama Creek Indian, Dusky Hill buried in Black Warrior Forest... My question is, are these teachings what I can Learn about? Part of Where I came from

[@jenaogirl]

My people are from Creek Stand, AL. Mvskoke call it "Warrior Stand". Many native women from there were married off to white men in the early 1800s, as was my ancestor. The only alternative was to be pushed west away from their home and marched away on the ToT. Mvskoke people brought much of their culture to European settlers by the process of intermarriage. Cooking, gardening, stories, and living off the land were among those ways. I still make my grandma's fry bread from cornmeal and know many edible and medicinal wild plants which can be found all over East Alabama and West Georgia.

[@LoveYourself-1970]

@@jenaogirl my "Maw" didnt talk much of history with the ancestors, sad I would love to. The only thing she did was write like a cookbook for me 6mo later it was destroyed in a fire. She outlived 2 husbands, believe me she gardened, canned, raise some cattle. Had a lil chicken coop, did her own washing and cleaning. I use think she was related to super woman when I was younger... I sure do miss her. Our people settled more Northern Alabama to middle/east. Lawrence & Winston County....thank you for explaining how they ended up married to people that took over their land.
Can I ask you a question???
Did Creek Indians, look like African Americans?
My Grandma kinda did their hair was coarse and straight, some had curly hair, not on top but from like ears down... TC

[@LoveYourself-1970]

@@jenaogirl Also our family cemetery is in Black Warrior Forest😉

[@aletheiarose9586]

@@LoveYourself-1970 My great great grandmother is creek, she grew up on a preservation in Oklahoma, she had coarse hair and dark skin, she and her kin were labelled “African-American”.

[@LoveYourself-1970]

@@aletheiarose9586 yes, I know they where pushed out of Ala, went to Oklahoma, Trail of Tears, I wonder if it was just the females they kept and married in Ala? I have a Pic when I was 2 on her lap near her pet dear.🥰 I believe we all are one, in someway or another, brother and sisters. Love n light

[@missym4162]

Very interesting should I have said

[@glynnphillips9703]

Awww,A'HO!

[@jeremyelston3612]

Mvto

[@user-ci6dw4dd8i]

Pokecice etv aho ce komeyomitvhvlwe honwe eskvpohe.

[@user-ci6dw4dd8i]

Ekute lucv cehiyo pumekko punetvkmi hiyape hoheyohompvethknv hvlwe.

[@li_moody0038]

I see a 5$ Indian 👀

[@ladym2668]

They don't look like Indians to me!

[@maxmccloud8566]

They aren't really, 2/3rds of the Creeks and Cherokee had been assimilated, by choice, before the Trail of Tears...which was the 3rd not willing to assimilate. So they were given land in Oklahoma that was twice a big as the land they claimed in AL, GA, etc.

[@rachellaymon8614]

What should an Indian look like?

[@AlluringFire]

Definitely not aboriginals of the land.

[@juliahearn994]

And just what are "Indians" supposed to look like? Should we all wear buckskin, beads, and feathers to fit your stereotype? Besides we aren't from India, so we're not Indians. We prefer to be identified as Mvskoke, Native or indigenous.

[@jameelahjohnson5243]

Most natives have dark skin most of them today are 5% mostly Caucasian people who wrote they were native to get land and benefits of land of the same people they stole from so