When the Alabama tribe first built a bingo hall on the site in 2001, it unearthed remains and artifacts. The dispute between the Muscogee nation and Poarch Creek has been ongoing for years. “Although violently and forcibly removed from the sacred ground where they held ceremony since time immemorial, the modern-day members of Hickory Ground have kept the traditions, culture, and ceremonies of their Muscogee ancestors alive at the present-day Hickory Ground on the Muscogee Reservation in Oklahoma,” the appeal said.

The mekko, or chief, of Hickory Ground relocated the settlement to Oklahoma, the appeal said. You have yet to do right by them.”Īlabama is the ancestral home of the Muscogee nation and Hickory Ground was the tribe’s last capital before removal on the Trail of Tears - a brutal, 800-mile (1,287 kilometers) march to Oklahoma that claimed countless lives. Some, still today, sit in a storage facility on site. “A promise that was broken when you removed our ancestors, stored them in boxes, and sent them off to a university to be studied by non- Indian archeologists. “You made a promise to protect these lands and the MCN ancestors who remain there,” Hill wrote. Court of Appeals in Atlanta to reinstate it, al.com reported.Ī letter sent last month to the Alabama-based Poarch Creek tribe by David Hill, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation`s principal chief, says the tribe failed to meet its obligation to Muscogee ancestors, the news site reported. A federal judge threw out the suit in 2021, but on Friday the tribal nation asked the 11th Circuit U.S.

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