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Three miles west on the Chattahoochee River was Oconee Village, home of the Oconee Indians from 1715 to 1799. Their chief Oueekachumfa, or Long King, signed a treaty with General Oglethorpe at Cowetah on August 21, 1739. In the 1750s, led by Chief Secoffee, many warriors of the tribe went to Florida along a trail that crosses here. There they changed their name to Seminoles, meaning Runaways and Outlaws, and formed the nucleus of the Seminole tribe. They fought settlers of south Georgia from 1817 to 1836 in the Seminole wars. Seminole Indians are found today in the Everglades of Florida.
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