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Coweta was a tribal town and one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Confederacy in what is now the Southeast United States, along with Kasihta (Cusseta), Abihka, and Tuckabutche.

Coweta was located on the Chattahoochee River in what the Spanish called Apalachicola Province now in the modern state of Alabama. It was a central trading city of the Lower Towns of the Mucogee Confederacy. Members of the tribal town were also known as Caouitas or Caoüita.

The Cherokee language name for all the Lower Creek is Anikhawitha.

Notable members

• William McIntosh (1775–1825)
• Mary Musgrove (ca. 1700–1767)
• Emperor Brim (died 1733)
• Malatchi (1720-1756)

Notes

1. Isham, Theodore and Blue Clark. "Creek (Mvskoke)." Archived 2010-07-20 at the Wayback Machine Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Retrieved 20 Aug 2012.
2. ^ Walker, Willard B.; Creek Confederacy Before Removal; Sturtevant, William C. (general editor) and Fogelson, Raymond D. (volume editor); Handbook of North American Indians: Southeast: Volume 14; Washington DC; Smithsonian Institution; 2004; ISBN 0-16-072300-0.

• Muscogee tribal towns
• Native American history of Georgia (U.S. state)
• Native American history of Alabama