Did you know that prominent Muskogee-Creek men were operating gold mines in West Georgia, within the Creek Nation as early as 1805 or earlier? All of the land in the last Creek land cession in Georgia of 1827 was within the Georgia Gold Belt.
In 2010 and 2011, when former National Park Service director, Roger Kennedy, and I were doing research on the early 19th century history of North Georgia, we discovered that the Nacoochee Valley, where the Georgia Gold Rush officially began in 1828, was actually SOLD by its Spanish-speaking, mixed Jewish-Spanish-Native American occupants in 1821 to real estate speculators from Burke County, North Carolina.
The sellers either moved to the CREEK NATION lands in Alabama or remained in the region. Those that stayed, actively participated in the Georgia Gold Rush. In 1849, a group of about 100 of the mixed blood miners moved to the California Gold Rush. The war with Mexico had just ended, so they disguised their predominate Spanish-Jewish heritage by calling themselves Cherokees.
This is the real history of the Georgia and California Gold Rushes. The documentary was funded by the California Arts Council, plus foundations, based in Alabama and Campeche State, Mexico. We now know that the first large group of Mayas in Georgia, came from Campeche between 550 AD and 600 AD.
The Americas Revealed 
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