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The tribe of Indians of the Rood Creek Mounds is not known well. However, it is sure that they spoke the Muskhogean tongue. Certainly the Muscogee tongue was the most widespread and was the speech of the Creek and the related to Choctow, Chickasaw, and Siminal Indians as well as the Timuca, Calusa, Natchez, Tunica, Chitimacha and Alakapa tribes. 

As regards to their religion, the Indians of the Rood Creek Mounds believed in spiritual beings. They called them the great spirits of the Upper World. These spirits were the sun, the moon, the great thunder; Kanati, the Covn; Selu. They also believed in the spirits of the Under World, but their devotion to the Under World was not as remarkable as to the spirits of the Upper World. The Under World spirits were the immortals and they were supposed to look like herokees. The Rood Creek Indians believed that the immortals lived in town houses within the bald mountains under Nikwasi mound, which now is Fronklin in North Carolina. The Rood Creek Indians were fond of the immortals because they looked after tired hunters and lost children. Other spiritual beings were the Little People. They were physically well formed no higher than a man’s knee with long hair to the ground. They lived in rock shelters and caves. They also believed that serious misfortunes and illness and even death could be caused by the action of witches. Southeast Indians knew that if the spiritual beings were slighted or treated disrespectfully, they would become resentful and the offender would be stricken with disease.