Historians estimate that in total roughly 20,000–23,000 Creek (Muscogee) people were forced to leave the Southeast —primarily from Alabama and Georgia—to what is now Oklahoma during the era of Indian Removal in the 1820s–1830s.

Quick Scoop: Key Numbers

  • Around 20,000 Muscogee Creek were marched out of Alabama alone after the Treaty of Cusseta and the Creek War of 1836.
  • Scholarly work on Creek removal puts the overall figure at about 23,000 Creeks removed from Alabama and Georgia between about 1825 and 1838.
  • Within that total, about 15,000 Creeks were driven out in the intense phase around 1836–1837, often under military guard, with thousands dying from disease, exposure, and hardship.

Put simply: when you add up the different waves of forced migration, deportations after uprisings, and “voluntary” removals under pressure, historians converge on about twenty‑odd thousand Creek people compelled to leave their homelands in the Southeast.

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