 After being forced west to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), by United States soldiers under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Muscogee named their major settlement there Wetumka, after their historic village.Wetumpka was long settled by the Muscogee people, whose territory extended through present-day Georgia and Alabama.Their largest towns were on the banks of the Coosa and at its confluence with the Tallapoosa River, at Wetumpka and "Talisi" (now Tallassee), respectively.