Creek
noun/kriːk/
/kriːk/
(plural Creek, Creeks)
- a member of a native North American people, many of whom now live in the US state of OklahomaCultureThe Creek people lived by farming, originally in the states of Alabama and Georgia. They were one of the Five Civilized Tribes. Under their leader Tecumseh they were defeated by General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814) in Alabama. They were then forced to move to the West.Word Originfrom creek, because they lived beside the waterways of the flatlands of Georgia and Alabama, USA.
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