Creek
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8.4
- noun
- /krik/
:
creek
- The guide claims that they had little interest in assimilation: "Most Creeks wanted to keep their traditional ways...
Examples
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The situation in Georgia was very different, where interactions with Seminoles were rare and interactions with Creeks could be considered, at the very best.
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Manufactured goods were expensive, and Creeks paid dearly for imported items.
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Of their four children, three had married Creeks.
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To many, it might seem that the eighteenth-century Creeks were colossal failures.
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Without trade, he complained, Creeks would flock to Pensacola, and then "we may expect an Indian war."
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After Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown a year later, there was very little incentive left for Creeks to resist Americans at all.
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After several small attacks early in the war, for instance, Georgians feared they would soon face a "general rupture," a "break with" Creeks, and widespread devastation.
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After destroying an Altamaha plantation, groups of Creeks and rangers fell on Fort Barrington, and a panicked McIntosh did not know how to respond.
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Lord George Germain, who replaced Thomas Gage in 1776 as the commander of all British forces in North America, urged Stuart to bring Creeks down on the frontiers of Georgia and Carolina.
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The Muskogee people are a proud member of the Creek Confederacy, known for their rich cultural heritage.
Synonyms
A person who belongs to the Muscogee tribe, also called the Creek
A Native American person from a group that lived in Georgia and eastern Alabama who helped form the Creek Confederacy
Idioms
An informal phrase to show hope that something will happen if nothing goes wrong
Compounds
A group of Native American tribes led by the Muskogee people in the southeastern United States before moving to Oklahoma
Surface Forms
Etymology
Creek was a name English settlers used for the Native American people who call themselves Muskogee, because many of their towns were by 'creeks', meaning small rivers. So today Creek means a member of that Native American group, originally from Georgia and Alabama and now mainly in Oklahoma.