There are a group of people in Geneva that appreciate our history and have compiled much research and placed this in several books in our library. My favorite book is "Geneva, Alabama - A History" by The Geneva Woman's Club in 1987. The following text is from the first page of the book. 

The town of Geneva is located in the southeast corner of Alabama. Several hundred years before the white man came here, the Lower Creak Indians were the inhabitants. The first disturbance of the Indian way of life that we know of was the arrival of Desoto in 1540. Desoto’s army passed some 70 – 80 miles to the east of Geneva. The harsh treatment that the officers and men of Desoto’s army gave the Indians was in direct contrast to the gentle treatment given the alien visitors. They were abused after welcoming Desoto. They provided food, shelter, labor, and shared their women. Yet the Spaniards treated the Indians like slaves and forced many of them to accompany them for protection from other hostile Indians who had heard of their treatment of the kindly Creeks. This early treatment by the white man very well may have been the reason for the Indian’s savage treatment of the white some 300 years later. We know, for instance, that the Indians were taught scalping by the Spanish. – Excerpt from “Geneva, Alabama – A History” by The Geneva Woman’s Club.