Oconee

The Creek Nation in Georgia is being revised, over the 150 years Oconee Valley interacted with the Spaniards.

It wasn't clear that the Creek/Muscogee or Oconee ever had so interacted. The mounds in old Creek territory didn't have Spanish remains. (Contrast, the contemporary Comanche, or the Cherokee after the founding of the Georgia colony.) So the mounds were dated beforehand, and the Creek were assumed later arrivals.

Now we know that the Oconee settlers were indeed Creek. This means that the society deliberately chose not to enter the literate or metal ages for themselves. Too white for them. [CANCEL, 7/21! - Lawrence Mead, "Poverty and Culture", 10.1007/s12115-020-00496-1.]

The article constantly castigates modern "racism" (i.e. whypipo) for denying the Creek / Oconee connection. "Erasing" their heritage I suppose we'd call it. It seems to me, though, that it was the Creeks' folly in the first place which... stuck them to their present state in central Oklahoma. The Muscogee told us for centuries they weren't civilised and we, at the final end, took them at their word.