Creeks

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 555

Creeks, or MUSCOGEES, a formerly powerful tribe of American Indians, of the Appalachian stock, who, reduced by war to some 25,000, were in 1836 removed from Georgia and Alabama to Indian Territory. In 1895 their number was estimated at 10,000.

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