Coweta (tribal town)
Native American town
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Coweta was a tribal town and one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Confederacy[1] in what is now the Southeast United States, along with Kasihta (Cusseta), Abihka, and Tuckabutche.[2]
Coweta was located on the Chattahoochee River in what the Spanish called Apalachicola Province now in the modern state of Alabama. It was a central trading city of the Lower Towns of the Mucogee Confederacy. Members of the tribal town were also known as Caouitas or Caoüita.[2][p. 391]
The Cherokee language name for all the Lower Creek is Anikhawitha.[2][p. 391]
Notable members
- William McIntosh (1775–1825)
- Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700–1767)
- Emperor Brim (died 1733)
- Malatchi (1720-1756)