OKAY Brother Richard from the monastery in Talking Rock, Jawja will set you straight. In 1542 the capital of the Kusaw people was in a large town at the edge of the Cohutta Mountains between modern day Jasper and Chatsworth. I live in Jasper, GA. It controlled a region stretching about 400 miles across from Knoxville to Birmingham. When the Spanish passed through Kusa Talwamikko, they left behind bacteria and viruses, which eventually killed off about 90-95% of their population. The survivors thought the land was cursed, and so they moved down stream on the Coosa River and re-established towns. The Kusaw looked different than the Muskogee, Apalachicola and Hitchiti Creeks. They still do. When the Kusaw were based in Georgia, most of Alabama was occupied by the Alabama and Choctaw peoples, plus some people that have been forgotten. They also suffered catastrophic population losses. Some Alabama merged with the Creek immigrants, others moved farther west. Richard T. **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)

On those diseases, smallpox was a big one. As a child growing up, I lived with elders who were still traumatized by that and who would almost jump out of their skins at the mere mention of the word 'smallpox.' People died, whole families at one time. Communities could be literally wiped out overnight. That's why I take the concept of bioterrorism quite seriously. And when the CDC talks about smallpox being 'eradicated,' I don't believe it for a second. Deborah On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:21:59 EDT, TalliyaSoutheast wrote > OKAY Brother Richard from the monastery in Talking Rock, Jawja will > set you straight. In 1542 the capital of the Kusaw people was in a > large town at the edge of the Cohutta Mountains between modern day > Jasper and Chatsworth. I live in Jasper, GA. It controlled a > region stretching about 400 miles across from Knoxville to > Birmingham. When the Spanish passed through Kusa Talwamikko, they > left behind bacteria and viruses, which eventually killed off about > 90-95% of their population. The survivors thought the land was > cursed, and so they moved down stream on the Coosa River and re- > established towns. The Kusaw looked different than the Muskogee, > Apalachicola and Hitchiti Creeks. They still do. > > When the Kusaw were based in Georgia, most of Alabama was occupied > by the Alabama and Choctaw peoples, plus some people that have > been forgotten. They also suffered catastrophic population losses. > Some Alabama merged with the Creek immigrants, others moved > farther west. > > Richard T. > > **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up > for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. > (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CREEK- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --