12:3812:38, 3 July 2019diffhist−3 m
Mary Musgrove
→Early life: Yamacraw was a village founded near Savannah a few months before the English colony. Further down in the article, it states that Coosapokaneesa was born in the Creek town of Coweta. Coweta was then located in present day Macon, GA and capital of the Creek Confederacy.
15:0715:07, 21 August 2017diffhist+30
James Oglethorpe
Undid revision 761289031 by Carlstak (talk) Whoever changed the wording from Creek to Cherokee committed an act of vandalism. The visit of Oglethorpe and the Creek leaders is well doumented.
15:5215:52, 23 August 2015diffhist+1,225
Oostanaula River
The original article quoted folklore as fact without investigating actual historical maps and archives from the Colonial Period.
19 April 2015
14:3414:34, 19 April 2015diffhist+913
Chickamauga Creek
There are TWO Chickamauga Creeks in Georgia, not one - as stated in the original article. The original article was written primarily from a Tennessee perspective.
12:5412:54, 19 April 2015diffhist+1,144
Chickamauga Creek
Chickamauga was originally a Chickasaw town. This information was completely left out of the article. The reader was made to think that Cherokees founded the town.
12:4112:41, 19 April 2015diffhist+1,185
Battle of Chickamauga
Apparently, the original author of this article relied on speculations by non-Native American authors, rather than consulting indigenous peoples or their dictionaries.
4 April 2015
01:0301:03, 4 April 2015diffhist+1,288
Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia
The original article was grossly inaccurate in many ways. The Cherokees were nowhere around in 1540 AD. It originally gave a false translation of the word, based on frontier folklore.
13:3113:31, 13 March 2015diffhist+2,986
Oconaluftee (Great Smoky Mountains)
→Early history: The text presented in the original article was biased and did not provide alternative explanations of the region's history that are backed up by Colonial Era maps and translations of words from accepted dictionary sources.
21:5321:53, 9 October 2012diffhist+34
Tallulah
Tallulah Falls, GA is in Creek Indian country and 300+ miles from any Choctaw village. Who in the world put a Choctaw meaning?
23:3723:37, 17 November 2011diffhist+517
Oconee River
→Name origin: Whoever wrote the original text had absolutely no knowledge of the Creek languages. Please don't write something on Native Americans unless you confirm it with someone who knows the language.