Indigenous Peoples of Georgia

Tribes and Bands of Georgia
The following list of American Indians who have lived in Washington has been compiled from Hodge's Handbook of American Indians... and from Swanton's The Indian Tribes of North America. Some may simply be variant spellings for the same tribe.

Apalachee, Apalachicola, Catawba, Chatot, Cherokee, Chiaha, Chickasaw, Creek, Guale, Hitchiti, Kasihta, Oconee, Okmulgee, Osochi, Sawokli, Shawnee, Tamathli, Timucua, Yamasee, Yuchi

Reservations
From the mid-1800s, the official policy of the United States government toward the American Indian was to confine each tribe to a specific parcel of land called a reservation. Agencies were established on or near each reservation. A government representative, usually called an agent (or superintendent) was assigned to each agency. Their duties included maintaining the peace, making payments to the Native Americans based on the stipulations of the treaties with each tribe, and providing a means of communication between the native population and the federal government.

Sometimes, a single agency had jurisdiction over more than one reservation. And sometimes, if the tribal population and land area required it, an agency may have included sub-agencies.

The boundaries of reservations, over time, have changed. Usually, that means the reservations have been reduced in size. Sometimes, especially during the later policy of "termination," the official status of reservations was ended altogether.

The following list of reservations has been compiled from the National Atlas of the United States of America, the Omni Gazetteer of the United States of America , and other sources. Those reservations named in bold are current federally-recognized reservations, with their associated agency and tribe(s). Others have historically been associated with the state or are not currently recognized by the federal government.

Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee

Tama Tribal Town

Agencies of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

 * Creek Agency

Family History Library
For a complete list of available study the Family History Library Catalog search by Tribe and Locality


 * Office of Indian Trade 1795-1821 13 films - M1334 Film Family History Library  1st microfilm 1605523
 * Office of Indian Affairs, Superintendent of Indian Trade. Letter book of the Creek trading house. 1795-1816, Family History Library film 1024433.

See Also:
Georgia-History for a calendar of events

Georgia-Military for a list of forts