I live in Columbus, Georgia. Where I am sitting, writing this email was once a Creek Indian Village. From what I understand and what I have read, it was huge. It stretched from here to several miles down the Chatahoochee River and on to what is now Fort Benning. It was on both sides of the river, the other side being Alabama. I forget his name, but when one frontiersman made his way west from the Savannah settlement on the coast, he described encountering a very advanced "people" here with very sturdy lodges made of earth and tree bark. They subsisted on both farming and hunting deer. A few years ago, a man metal detecting on the shore of the river unearthed a gun lock. It consisted of both the jaws that were still attached to a lock plate. It was completed rusted and frozen, but there was no doubting what it was. I don't know what he did with that lock, but I have wondered what stories it could tell if it could talk. I would think that if you did a search for Creek indians of the southeast maybe some good titles would come up.
