Creek people

Creek (kr

n. pl. Creek or Creeks In all senses also called Muskogee¹.

a. A Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and northwest Florida and now located in central Oklahoma and southern Alabama. The Creek were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.

b. A member of this people.

c. The Muskogean language of the Creek.

a. A Native American confederacy made up of the Creek and various smaller southeast tribes.

b. A member of this confederacy.

[From the picturesque creeks near which they lived.]

creek (kr

k, kr

1. A small stream, often a shallow or intermittent tributary to a river. Also called regionally branch, brook¹, kill², run.

2. A channel or stream running through a salt marsh: tidal creeks teeming with shore wildlife.

3. Chiefly British A small inlet in a shoreline, extending farther inland than a cove.

Idiom:

up the creek (without a paddle) Informal

In a difficult, unfortunate, or inextricable position.

[Middle English creke, probably from Old Norse kriki, bend.]

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Aegospotamos
Alabama
Alaska Highway
Antietam
Blue Mountains
brook
brooklet
Creek
creek bed
Creek Confederacy
Creeky
Crick
Cripple Creek
Dawson Creek
dry wash
greyly
Hitchiti
mangrove Jack

But if you ask Shaffer about that, she'll pass the credit along to her mother and grandmother and the Cow Creek people, who have had to work for everything they own, she said.

The 1,000-year plan by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

During the spring of 1789 Bowles conceived a plan with his Nassau business friends to take a party of Cherokee and Creek people to London.

The amazing William Augustus Bowles: a colorful life on the southern ... by Johnson, Michael G. / Whispering Wind

Ballistic tests showed that the same weapon was used to kill the two Campbell Creek people, Mr Morris said.

Shootings `may have drugs link' by The Journal (Newcastle, England)

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