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News Articles: Muscogee Nation

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Ocmulgee National Park getting custom-built dugout canoe

The Ocmuglee Mounds National Historical Park will soon receive a custom-built 13-foot cypress dugout canoe that will be on display in the park’s visitors center.

June 13, 2022
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  • Jason Vorhees
The back side of a statue depicting Chief Tomochichi, a Muscogee native who signed the 1733 Treaty of Savannah that launched the Georgia colony, pictured here on Dec. 20, 2021 in its temporary location in Atlanta. Muscogee Creek Nation historians say their ancestor would have been fully clothed, not clutching a bear pelt that doesn't cover his rear end.

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Native American statue's placement in Atlanta reconsidered

The Chief Tomochichi statue was conceived as the centerpiece of a park celebrating civil rights-era heroes, but Councilman Michael Julian Bond says the city hasn't accepted the statue yet. They want to make sure they're not "offending the Muscogee people."

February 14, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Tracie Revis was the first woman to serve as Chief of Staff to the Principal Chief of the Muscogee Nation. Now she is charged with leading community outreach with the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative, the Macon based group trying to create a national park that takes in traditional cultural property of the Muscogee Nation.

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New director of outreach in Georgia's national park effort brings a Native voice to the table

Tracie Revis’ roots run thousands of years deep at the Ocmulgee Mounds, where she's part of the effort to expand the footprint of the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park into the first ever full-fledged national park in Georgia.

February 03, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
A study is underway to determine whether a 50-mile stretch of the Ocmulgee River and adjacent land should be added to the National Park Service.

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Public Comment Sought On Ocmulgee Mounds National Park Corridor

When Congress agreed to enlarge the boundaries of the former Ocmulgee National Monument the national park designation was only part of the plan.

For the next few years, the National Park Service will study whether to include about 50 river miles in Bibb, Twiggs, Houston, Bleckley and Pulaski counties.

February 08, 2021
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  • Liz Fabian
Entrance to the Earth Lodge at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

Muscogee Youth Return To Ancestral Homeland In Macon

The Muscogee Creek people were removed from Georgia in 1834. In 2019, members of the Muscogee Creek Nation Youth Council came back to their homeland for...

April 28, 2020
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  • Marianna Bacallao

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