From inside a shelter he made, Jim Sawgrass talks about southeast Native American culture, during the 2nd Annual Southeastern Indian Festival, hosted by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians (PBCI) near Atmore, Alabama, in rural Escambia County, on Sunday, April 4, 2014.
From inside a shelter he made, Jim Sawgrass talks about southeast Native American culture, during the 2nd Annual Southeastern Indian Festival, hosted by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians (PBCI) near Atmore, Alabama, in rural Escambia County, on Sunday, April 4, 2014.
U.S. Department of Agriculture has had a long history of successful program support of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, near Atmore, Alabama, in rural Escambia County, 2-10 April 2014. The Poarch Creek Indians are descendants of a segment of the original Creek Nation, which once covered almost all of Alabama and Georgia. Unlike many eastern Indian tribes, the Poarch Creeks were not removed from their tribal lands and have lived together for almost 200 years in and around the reservation in Poarch, Alabama. The Poarch Band of Creek Indians is the only federally recognized Indian Tribe in the state of Alabama, operating as a sovereign nation with its own system of government and bylaws. The Tribe operates a variety of economic enterprises, which employ hundreds of area residents.
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USDA Photo by Lance Cheung. Original public domain image from Flickr