The Utinahica were a tribe of American Indians living, in the 17th century, in what would someday be known as Georgia, in the southern United States. Their descendants include the Creek Indians. American Indian can refer to: Native Americans in the United States; Any of the indigenous peoples of the Americas; the First Nations of Canada; American Indians, as defined by the U.S. Census. ... The Creek are an American Indian people originally from the southeastern United States, also known by their original name Muscogee (or Muskogee), the name they use to identify themselves today. ...

This group was the subject of one of the New World's first Christian missionary expeditions, Santa Isabel de Utinahica, a settlement built for a single Franciscan monk, who was intended to work on converting them to Christianity, as well as gathering information on them, from around 1610 to 1640. The Order of Friars Minor and other Franciscan movements are disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi. ...