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The Muscogee get their say in national park plan for Georgia

Pedro Zepeda, of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, explains how he and Muscogee elder John John Brown carved a traditional canoe from a cypress tree, on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2002, in Macon, Ga. (AP Photo/Michael Warren)

Choctaw teenagers demonstrate stickball at the 30th annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022 in Macon, Ga. The game traditionally involved up to hundreds of players at a time, and was used as an alternative to war for settling disputes. (AP Photo/Michael Warren)

Tracie Revis, center, joins fellow citizens of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and visitors to the mounds in an exhibition of a stomp dance at the 30th annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration, on Sept. 17, 2022, in Macon, Ga. Revis is advocacy director for the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative. (AP Photo/Michael Warren)

Isley Phillips, 18, chases her brother Noah, 19, and his racoon-tail hat as part of their traditional Racoon Dance, on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, in Macon, Ga. The teenagers are members of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and performed at the 30th annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration at the Ocmulgee Mounds. (AP Photo/Michael Warren)

Miss Muscogee (Creek) Nation Tema Yargee, 20, and Jr. Miss Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Chenoa Barnett, 17, pose at the Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, in Macon, Ga. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)

William Wind, U.S. Navy (retd) and Curtis Smith, U.S. Marine Corps (retd) help open ceremonies held at the Ocmulgee National Historical Park on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, in Macon, Ga. Wind and Smith are members of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Honor Guard. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)

Tracie Revis, a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nationposes at the Great Temple Mound in Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Ga., on Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Warren)

A passion flower grows atop the Great Temple Mound in Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Ga., on Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Warren)

Butterflies flourish amid the flowers atop the Great Temple Mound in Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Ga., on Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)

The remains of a funeral mound at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Ga., on Aug. 22, 2022. The lesser funeral mound remains mostly intact at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Macon, Georgia, on Aug. 22, 2022. A railroad blasted through a much larger burial mound. Archeologists removed millions of artifacts, still held in government archives, and skeletons were put on ghoulish display before the Muscogee managed to rebury 114 ancestors in 2017. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)

The Ocmulgee River, filled with red clay after recent rains, flows nine stories below the Great Temple Mound in Macon, Ga., on Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)

The landscape is seen from the top of the Great Temple Mound, a nine-story-tall earthen structure that gave Native Americans a 360-degree view of their territory before they were forcibly removed in the 1820s, in Macon, Ga., on Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson),

The entrance to the Earth Lodge, where Native Americans held council meetings for 1,000 years until their forced removal in the 1820s, in Macon, Ga., is seen on Aug. 22, 2022. The lodge would be a highlight of the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)

Tracie Revis, left, a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation, and Seth Clark, mayor pro-tem of Macon, stand at the approach to the Earth Lodge, where Native Americans held council meetings for 1,000 years until their forced removal in the 1820s, on Aug. 22, 2022, in Macon, Ga. Revis and Clark are co-directors of an initiative to bring 50 miles of the Ocmulgee River under federal protection as a national park. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)

A frog lingers in a hollow tree at the Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Round Oak, Ga., on Aug. 22, 2022. The swamp is one of many local, state and federal jurisdictions that would be co-managed by the National Park Service if the 50-mile park and preserve is approved. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)

Seth Clark, mayor pro-tem of Macon, walks in the Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Round Oak, Ga., on Aug. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Warren)

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks at the 30th annual Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration, on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022, in Macon, Ga. Haaland applauded efforts by the Muscogee and the people of Macon to bring more land under the protection of the National Park Service. (AP Photo/Sharon Johnson)

The Muscogee get their say in national park plan for Georgia