Coweta (tribal town)

{{Short description|Native American town}}

Coweta was a tribal town and one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee ConfederacyIsham, Theodore and Blue Clark. [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CR006.html "Creek (Mvskoke)."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100720043504/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CR006.html |date=2010-07-20 }} Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Retrieved 20 Aug 2012. in what is now the Southeast United States, along with Kasihta (Cusseta), Abihka, and Tuckabutche.Walker, Willard B.; Creek Confederacy Before Removal; Sturtevant, William C. (general editor) and Fogelson, Raymond D. (volume editor); Handbook of North American Indians: Southeast: Volume 14; Washington DC; Smithsonian Institution; 2004; {{ISBN|0-16-072300-0}}.

Coweta was located on the Chattahoochee River in what the Spanish called Apalachicola Province now in the modern state of Alabama. It was a central trading city of the Lower Towns of the Mucogee Confederacy. Members of the tribal town were also known as Caouitas or Caoüita.^[p. 391]

The Cherokee language name for all the Lower Creek is Anikhawitha.^[p. 391]

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