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Five Civilized Tribes is a precolonial term. It refers to the five tribes whom Europeans considered to be civilized, the five tribes are Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole. These five tribes maintained political relations with the Europeans. The features based on which Europeans considered them to be civilized were Christianity, literacy, intermarriage, written constitutions, and markets. This term is criticized for providing an ethnocentric definition of civilization. All these tribes lived in Southeastern United States.
