Caxa

Caxa lies in the Talisi country of central Alabama, a region of forested plains and river valleys in the south-eastern woodlands of North America. From about 1000 to 1600, Mississippian farming communities lived along the rivers here, growing maize and building earthen mounds. Moundville, a major centre farther upriver, shows links to a wider network of ceremonial objects and ideas. Spanish expeditions reached the region in the sixteenth century, and English and French traders later competed for trade with the Creek towns. After Alabama became a state in 1819, cotton plantations expanded on land worked by enslaved African Americans. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 preceded the forced removal of Creek and other Indigenous communities from their homelands.