"The Muscogee (Creek) people are descendants of a remarkable culture that, before 1500 AD, spanned the entire region known today as the Southeastern United States. Early ancestors of the Muscogee constructed magnificent earthen pyramids along the rivers of this region as part of their elaborate ceremonial complexes. The historic Muscogee, known as Mound builders, later built expansive towns within these same broad river valleys in the present states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina." - https://www.mcn-nsn.gov/culturehistory/
"I saw one of my roles as an Indian journalist as interpreting national Indian policy-making in ways that Creek people could relate to its consequences. I am thrilled now to be a part of a nationalistic effort of reinventing the enemy's language." - Helen Chalakee Burgess
Poem: Rational (pg 230)