Florida Senate - 2025                            (NP)    SR 1896
       
       
        
       By Senator Truenow
       
       
       
       
       
       13-03787-25                                           20251896__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution designating August 2025 as “Muscogee
    3         (Creek) Nation Heritage Month” in Florida.
    4  
    5         WHEREAS, members of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the
    6  official recognized federal tribal nation and sole successor in
    7  interest to the historic Creek Nation, are the direct lineal
    8  descendants of the ancestors who lived for centuries on the
    9  lands of what is now Northern Florida, and
   10         WHEREAS, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a Florida Native
   11  American sovereign government that also included much of the
   12  southeast region of the United States, entered one of the
   13  earliest peace treaties with President George Washington and
   14  Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson on August 1, 1790, and
   15         WHEREAS, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation is recognized by the
   16  Federal Government as one of the official Native American
   17  governments of Florida, and
   18         WHEREAS, on May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed
   19  the Indian Removal Act into law, initiating the forced
   20  relocation of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, in violation of many
   21  previous treaties signed by the United States, and
   22         WHEREAS, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizens were once
   23  again targeted, along with the Seminole Nation, to be forcibly
   24  removed from Florida by the state militia by an act of the
   25  Florida Legislature signed by Governor William Dunn Moseley on
   26  December 18, 1846, and
   27         WHEREAS, the infamous “Trail of Tears” of Native American
   28  removal included a path from Florida to the Oklahoma Indian
   29  Territory, which thousands of Muscogee (Creek) Nation members of
   30  Florida were forced to take at bayonet and gunpoint, and
   31         WHEREAS, the Muscogee (Creek) people were removed from
   32  their homeland in Florida against their will, and subsequently
   33  their longstanding presence and history in the region have been
   34  largely erased, NOW, THEREFORE,
   35  
   36  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
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   38         That August 2025 is designated as “Muscogee (Creek) Nation
   39  Heritage Month” in Florida.
   40         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the members of the Muscogee
   41  (Creek) Nation are recognized for their longstanding presence in
   42  Florida and their cultural, historic, and economic
   43  contributions.
   44         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution, with
   45  the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to the Muscogee
   46  (Creek) Nation and Chief David Hill as a tangible token of the
   47  sentiments of the Florida Senate.