The Poarch Creek Indians will welcome a Muscogee (Creek) Nation delegation from Oklahoma on Friday, to the Poarch’s Hickory Ground site in Wetumpka.
This site carries deep historical and cultural meaning for many Creek people across generations, and control of the site has been at the heart of a long, protracted legal disagreement between the two tribes. This meeting would seem to indicate that the two sides are at least entertaining the notion of setting aside their differences over the site.
A press release from PCI noted that it looked forward to the “peaceful, private gathering,” which will occur a day prior to an event commemorating the 212th anniversary of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Daviston. The battle, led by Andrew Jackson, effectively ended the Creek War and led to the U.S. federal government to assume control of more than 20 million acres of Creek land…