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Five Civilized Tribes
Sign in to savegroup of Native Americans in the southeastern US (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), Seminole) regarded by white people as ‘civilized’ due to adoption of attributes of Anglo-American culture
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Illustrations of members of the Five Civilized Tribes painted between 1775 and 1850 (clockwise from top left): Sequoyah, Pushmataha, Selocta, Osceola, and Piominko
The term Five Civilized Tribes was applied by the United States government in the early federal period of the history of the United States to the five major Native American nations in the Southeast: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminoles. White Americans classified them as "civilized" because they had adopted attributes of the Anglo-American culture.
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