As, therefore, the Pawnees would have stolen all their cattle, and the Creeks have taken all their slaves, they considered that utter destitution would be the consequence of the removal as proposed by the American Government.
This did not suit them; the Creeks had claimed many of their slaves, and they knew that they had no chance with so superior a force as that of the Creek nation, who would have taken all their slaves from them.
The early history of the Mississippi is one of piracy and buccaneering; its mouths were frequented by these marauders, as in the bayous and creeksthey found protection and concealment for themselves and their ill-gotten wealth.
Under the appropriation to authorize treaties with the Creeks and Quaupaw Indians commissioners have been appointed and negotiations are now pending, but the result is not yet known.
The Chickasaws and Cherokees have sold us the country between and adjacent to the two districts of Tennessee, and the Creeks the residue of their lands in the fork of the Ocmulgee up to the Ulcofauhatche.
Happily for the interests of humanity, the hostilities with the Creeks were brought to a close soon after your adjournment, without that effusion of blood which at one time was apprehended as inevitable.
The Creeks in particular are covered from encroachment by the imposition of the General Government and that of Georgia.
The convention with the State of Georgia has been ratified by their legislature, and a repurchase from the Creeks has been consequently made of a part of the Talasscee country.
An anxiety has been also demonstrated by the Executive for peace with the Creeksand the Cherokees.
It is surrounded on all sides by rather high mountains except where the narrow valleys of Atlantic and Pacific creeks open out from it.
The same is true of its more southern breeding-grounds along creeks and bayous of the land where the orange and palmetto charm the eye with perennial verdure.
On their first arrival, the banks of large rivers are frequented; but as the season advances, many trace their way into the interior, along the courses of our creeks and rivulets.
The stream they were following was now running with quite a swift current and the boys noticed several side branches or smaller creeks flowing into it.
They might have gone up any one of these creeks or they might have started for the mainland.
Beavers build themselves houses on the banks of creeks or small rivers, with mud, sticks, and stones, and afterwards cover them over with a coat of mud, which becomes very hard.
He showed himself a master of forest warfare, and in the bloody battle of Horseshoe Bend he broke the strength of the Creeks forever.
In the Civil War the Creeks were divided in their allegiance and suffered heavily in the campaigns.
The Creeks were agriculturists living in villages of log houses.
Between Millidgeville and Macon the route became all but impassable: at each mile we anticipated a stand-still; the rain was incessant; the creeks were flooded, and the bridges in an indescribable condition.
The creeks rushed as fast as possible down to the rivers, and the rivers did their utmost to carry the water to Lake Mälar.
All the lakes and rivers in Uppland and the mining district quickly threw off their ice covers on one and the same day, so that the creeksfilled with ice-floes which rose clear up to their banks.
The snow was still deep among the trees, and the creeks were mostly frozen.
In this Province the river and the creeks were the only roads from settlement to settlement.
Soon after this expedition some of the Creeksand Cherokees again invaded Georgia.
In the rains it, is surrounded by water, and all communication with other parts is by boats: in winter, Jynteapore and Pundua may be reached by land, crossing creeks innumerable on the way.
From the top of the bluff below the modern city of Trenton there was easy access to forests of chestnut, oak, and pine, with their supplies of game, while the river and its tributary creeks were full of fish.
But Burlington, Bordentown, Cape May, and Trenton, and innumerable little villages up creeks and channels or mere ditches could not be kept from the prevailing industry.
In this and similar ways the rivers and creeks are kept supplied with water and the Falls of Niagara kept continually roaring.
Gerrans is close to one of the lovely creeks that run inland from Falmouth Harbour.
When we reach the Helford River we have come to another rival of the Fal, with creeks and inlets, wooded banks and fields, differing in size but hardly in degree of beauty.
It is certain that the passage up the Fal, especially in suitable weather, is of very real charm, with its numerous temptingcreeks and pools, its ferries and riverside hamlets, its sloping meadows and spreading woodlands.
The shore here is broken into some small creeks of great beauty, but one chasm is so dark and sombre that it has won the name of Blackapit.
Judge Thayer went on, "The trouble is, this prairie sheds water like the roof of a house, shoots it off so quick into the draws and creeks it never has a chance to soak in.
Streams andcreeks ran down from the timbered hills and crossed the tracks to join large rivers which emptied into the Pacific.
They had reached one of the smallcreeks which empty into the Umpqua.
On one of the side creeks to it they found Alder Gulch in 1863; and Alder Gulch put Montana on the map and started the bull outfits moving out from Benton, at the head of navigation.
He was right in that--and he says those little creeks may run into a river the Indians called the Medicine River.
Say we get back into the side creeks a little and pick up a mess of fish now and then, and make the Beaverhead a couple of camps later?
The names on most of their creeks are changed now, so you can't hardly tell them.
He struck into one of the creeks that run down into the Yellowstone.
I would like the boys to see the Beaverhead Rock and get a general notion of how many of these confusing little creeks there were that had to be worked out.
Now as they came up through the Bad Lands and the upper breaks of the big river, the explorers gave names to a lot of creeks and buttes, most of which did not stick.
Springs form numerous creeks on the northern side, and their tree-and brush-lined banks are a favorite ground for berry-picking parties.
He felt sure that Evans would try to do so, and told us that plenty of junks were always lying in the creeks at the back of the island, and could get away in half an hour, with the wind as it was now blowing.
There was some of it in the Americanos, but the gold was even thicker in the dried-up creeks an' gulches that run into the river on both sides.
Near the end of February, 1851, working in Summerhill Creek, he discovered sure signs of gold, though in no such alluring quantity as had been found on the creeks leading into the Sacramento River.
It is to be expected, also, that it will be the means of firmly attaching the Creeks and neighboring tribes to the interests of the United States.
It may be remarked that from the signing of this treaty, there was no longer any controversy between our Government and the Creeks in relation to fugitive slaves.
But the duty of the Creeks to seize and return the Exiles was legally recognized by the treaty of Colerain, which admitted the treaty of New York to be in force.
Congress appointed three commissioners to examine the existing causes of difficulty, and if possible to negotiate a treaty with the Creeks that should secure justice to all the people of the United States.
But the leading men of the Seminoles became suspicious of the design of the Creeks to enslave the Exiles, before their delegation left Florida, and publicly expressed their suspicion.
Major General Jessup continued in Georgia, engaged in constraining the Creeks to emigrate.
The Creeks were not disposed to make further grants of territory; nor were they able to give any better assurance for the return of the Exiles than had been given at New York.
He insisted that slaves were not plunder, and did not come within the contract of General Jessup, which gave to Creeks the "plunder" they might capture.
With the Creeks it is a set of graven metal tablets, possibly relics of De Soto's disastrous expedition through the gulf states, religiously guarded by the priest of the Wind clan of the nation in Indian Territory.
As a result, the Kiowa, who had previously been together in a single camp on Cache creek below the fort, now began to scatter and take up individual farms along the Washita and on the creeks north of Mount Scott.
The peace thus made with the Osage and Creeks was never broken, although in after years relations with the Osage were somewhat strained in consequence of their serving as scouts against the allied southern plains tribes.
There was a fair road that led to it from the beach, and this took them over a rickety wooden bridge that spanned one of the numerous tide-water creeks in the vicinity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "creeks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
