The Edistos (the current tribe) is mixed Kusso and Natchez heritage, so they are also Muskogean. -----Original Message----- From: Glenn Faulk <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 1:40 pm Subject: Re: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Pee Dee Creeks Mentioning South Carolina, are the Edistos of Muskogean lineage? If not, do you have any idea of the lineage? ? Thanks, Glenn --- On Wed, 8/6/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Pee Dee Creeks To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 11:38 AM Yes, Michelle is right. The Pee Dees are Creeks, even thought the State of South Carolina told them for a long time that they were Siouan. The Pee Dees probably started wanting to call themselves something other than Creek during the Red Stick War Period. A lot of Georgia Friendly Creeks were murdered just because they had the same tribal label as the Red Stick Faction in Alabama. Michael Jacobs, in Waycross, found an old report from a US Army officer that only four women out of 112 men, women and children survived an ambush by militia forces on the Georgia side of the Chattahoochee River as they were returning home from assisting the US Army in the Second Seminole War. They were ALLIES, yet were masscred. It's the old divide and conquer strategy used again. I feel sure that politicians in during the early 1800s encouraged animosity between the Muscogees and the Seminoles for the same reason. Richard T. **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-BMW-128-2008/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00050000000017 ) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message