Poarch Creek Indian Reservation

The Poarch Creek Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation of the Creek near Atmore, Alabama (northeast of Mobile, Alabama). It is home of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, who received state recognition as the only American Indian people in the field of Alabama.

The reserve about 1,000 of the 2,340 members of the tribe live. The Poarch band also has other "trust land" land in the states of Alabama and Florida.

History

Most Creek were expelled after the Creek War and the Treaty of Fort Jackson in 1814 to the west. In the 1940s, the remaining members of the tribe in Alabama organized politically under their tribal leader Calvin McGhee and could ultimately reach 1984 reservation recognition of the Poarch Creek Indian Reservation as a Federal Indian. The tribal government operates since 1990 on a self-financing "Bingo palace " and has tourist infrastructure.