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<p>“A long-needed study of the creation stories and legends of the Creek Indian people and their neighbors...including the influential Yuchi legends and Choctaw myths as well as those of the Hitchiti, Alabama, and Muskogee.” –Charles R. McNeil, Msueum of Florida History, Tallahassee</p> <p>The creation stories, myths, and migration legends of the Creek Indians who once populated southeastern North America are centuries—if not millennia—old. For the first time, an extensive collection of all known versions of these stories has been compiled from the reports of early ethnographers, sociologists, and missionaries, obscure academic journals, travelers’ accounts, and from Creek and Yuchi people living today.</p> <p>The Creek Confederacy originated as a political alliance of people from multiple cultural backgrounds, and many of the traditions, rituals, beliefs, and myths of the culturally differing social groups became communal property. Bill Grantham explores the unique mythological and religious contributions of each subgroup to the social entity that historically became known as the Creek Indians. Within each topical chapter, the stories are organized by language group following Swan

Who reads Creation Myths and Legends of the Creek Indians?

Author

Grantham, Bill

Publisher

2002-02-20, 2002-02-20.

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781616101213

Category

nonfiction

Updated

2026-03-24