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Tukabatchee or Tuckabutche (Creek: Tokepahce) is one of the four mother towns of the Muscogee Creek confederacy. The pre-removal tribal town was located on the Tallapoosa River in the present-day state of Alabama.

The town is believed to be the first site of the ancient 'busk' fire which began the Green Corn Ceremony. Tukabatchee was the home of Big Warrior, one of the two principal chiefs of the Creeks until his death in 1826. Chief Opothleyahola was born here in 1780.

In 1811 Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa (better known as the Prophet) addressed Creek leaders in the Tukabatchee town square. Tecumseh was so disappointed in Big Warrior's response at the end of his speech against American expansion that he said upon reaching Chalagawtha the Prophet would "...stamp his foot and all of Tuckabatchee's cabins would fall." An ahistorical legend subsequently developed stating that the town was leveled by the New Madrid earthquake a month later but there is neither documentary nor archeological evidence that the town was destroyed.

During the Creek War in 1813, Red Stick rebels surrounded the town. The siege was lifted by Creeks from the nearby town of Cusseta.

Notes

"English - Creek". Retrieved May 27, 2012.
Isham, Theodore and Blue Clark. "Creek (Mvskoke)." Archived July 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Retrieved 20 Aug 2012.
Eddings, Anna. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. " Opothleyahola.""OPOTHLEYAHOLA (Ca. 1780-1863)". Archived from the original on November 19, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2013.

v t e Muscogee Creek Confederacy
Four mother towns	Abihka Coweta Kasihta Tukabatchee
Groups and towns	Alabama Apalachicola Coushatta Eufaula Fowltown (four locations) Hitchiti Miccosukee Muklassa Muscogee Okchai Okfuskee Prospect Bluff Historic Sites Sabacola Tallapoosa Tribal town
Leaders	Josiah Francis (Francis the Prophet) William McIntosh Peter McQueen Menawa Neamathla Osceola William Weatherford
Languages	Alabama Apalachee Creek-Seminole Koasati Mikasuki-Hitchiti
Culture	Religion Four Mothers Society Green Corn Ceremony Stomp dance College of the Muscogee Nation
History	Mississippian culture Pisgah phase Etowah Moundville Long Swamp Site Apalachicola Province (predecessor to Lower Towns) Chiaha Leon-Jefferson culture Battle of Taliwa State of Muskogee Forbes purchase Red Sticks Red Stick War (Creek civil war) Battle of Burnt Corn Fort Mims Massacre Kimbell-James Massacre Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814) Prospect Bluff Historic Sites Battle of Ocheesee Seminole Wars Indian Removal Act Trail of Tears Creek War of 1836 Creek National Capitol Crazy Snake Rebellion
Politics and law	Treaty of New York (1790) Treaty of Fort Jackson (1814) Treaty of Nicolls' Outpost (unratified) Treaty of Moultrie Creek Treaty of Washington (1826) Indian Removal Act Treaty of Cusseta Oklahoma Tax Commission v. United States Sharp v. Murphy
Federally recognized tribes (20th century)	Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana Kialegee Tribal Town Muscogee (Creek) Nation Poarch Band of Creek Indians Thlopthlocco Tribal Town

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