Eufaula

The Eufaula, Yofalv in the Creek language, were a Muskogee-speaking tribal town of the Creek Confederacy, perhaps an offshoot of the Upper Creek towns of Kealedji or Hilibi. One branch, among the Lower Creeks, had settled the Chattahoochee by 1733 or earlier, at the crossing later called Eufaula, where the Georgia deerskin trade brought European goods.

Other communities remained in the Upper Creek country, and in 1832 theirs was the only Upper Creek town on the federal census. Their chief Yoholo Micco went to Washington in 1825 after the Treaty of Indian Springs to seek better terms, but failed; the treaty forced his people across the Chattahoochee into Alabama.

In 1836, after the Creek War, the Eufaula were driven west on the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory, where they rebuilt their town and gave its name to the settlement that grew into Eufaula, Oklahoma.