Members of the Muscogee Creek Nation returned to Alabama this weekend for a memorial service on the 210th anniversary of the battle of Horseshoe Bend
Jay Fife, language liaison for the Muscogee Nation, looks at luminaries set up at the site of the battle of Horseshoe Bend in Tallapoosa County, Ala., on Saturday, March 23, 2024. ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. — Prayers and songs of remembrance carried across the grassy field where more than 800 Muscogee warriors, women and children perished in 1814 while defending their homeland from United States forces.. The battle was the single bloodiest day of conflict for Native Americans with U.S.
“They were going to fight to the end. The warriors were going to do what they could do to protect the women and children, protect themselves, protect our freedom, what we had here,” Hill said. “Hearing the wind and the trees and imagining those that came before us, they heard those same things. It wakes something up in your DNA,” said Dode Barnett, a member of the Muscogee Nation Tribal Council.
Hill became emotional watching his young grandson frolic and play in the nearby woods. He could envision the children doing the same 210 years ago and then the fighting that followed as the warriors made their final stand, he said.“Our tribal towns remain. Our culture remains. Our people remain. Our blood remains.
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Memorial marks 210th anniversary of crucial battle between Native Americans and United StatesMembers of the Muscogee Creek Nation returned to Alabama this weekend for a memorial service on the 210th anniversary of the battle of Horseshoe Bend.
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Memorial marks 210th anniversary of crucial battle between Native Americans and United StatesMembers of the Muscogee Creek Nation returned to Alabama this weekend for a memorial service on the 210th anniversary of the battle of Horseshoe Bend.
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Memorial marks 210th anniversary of crucial battle between Native Americans and United StatesMembers of the Muscogee Creek Nation returned to Alabama this weekend for a memorial service on the 210th anniversary of the battle of Horseshoe Bend.
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