Tributaries, at times

Usage examples of creeks.

The Red Stick faction of the Creeks, the southern allies of Tecumseh, came mainly from the Confederacy's Upper Towns.

By and large, the Lower Town Creeks had either remained neutral or were allied with the United States.

It was that, certainly, but it was more in the way of a civil war among the Creeks themselves.

The people massacred at Fort Mims by the Red Sticks a few months earlier, on August 30, had mainly been Creeks, not whites.

Some of the Creeks had already started calling the American general "Sharp Knife," and The Ridge was pretty sure it wouldn't be long before the Cherokees who were Jackson's allies would be doing the same.

He's more worried about being shot by my soldiers than he is about the Creeks, isn't he?

Already, the Creeks were starting to fire arrows at the oncoming Thirty-ninth.

The fight between Cherokees and Creeks on the southern end of the peninsula was simply too close up, too entangled in forest and brush.

Once their fortifications were overrun, the Creeks seemed to have no idea what to do.

The Creeks reminded him of the Icelandic clansmen he'd read about in Sturluson's stories, based on ancient Icelandic sagas.

They might have been Creeks, true, since there were about a hundred friendly Creeks participating in this battle on the American side, under the leadership of the headman of Coweta, William Mackintosh.

But Jackson, unlike many white men, could see at a glance the subtle difference between Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, and Chickasaws.

The Seminoles were more in the way of a split off from the Creeks than a truly separate tribe.

There was no way in creation that John Coffee, even if he had thrice the force he had covering the riverbank, could prevent Creeks from escaping the trap under cover of darkness.

All the more so because this war with the Creeks was just the opening skirmish in the coming battle with the British.