took place on November 12, 1813 as part of the Creek War. The skirmish was fought largely from canoes and was a victory for the militiamen, who only had...

The Creek War (also the Red Stick War or the Creek Civil War) was a regional conflict between opposing Native American factions, European powers, and the...

A war canoe is a watercraft of the canoe type designed and outfitted for warfare, and which is found in various forms in many world cultures. In modern...

Dragging Canoe (ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ, pronounced Tsiyu Gansini, c. 1738 – February 29, 1792) was a Cherokee red (or war) chief who led a band of Cherokee warriors...

While the fighting stretched across the entire period, there were extended periods with little or no action. The Cherokee leader Dragging Canoe, whom some...

feelings toward war, while the Kalispell allies, old war-chief Big Canoe and younger war-chief Spotted Coyote, were ready but not longing to fight anyway. The...

Valley Towns, and Middle Towns. They followed war leader Dragging Canoe southwest, first to the Chickamauga Creek area near Chattanooga, Tennessee, then to...

navigated by kayak or canoe from near Gordon and Lee Mill (Chickamauga, GA) northeast, to where it joins with the South Chickamauga Creek, and from there northward...

confederations, such as the Muscogee Creek and Catawba. The origin of the war was complex, and reasons for fighting differed among the many Indian groups...

the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe who opposed American expansion, effectively ending the Creek War. The Creek Indians of Georgia and the eastern...

soldier, and politician, who fought under General Andrew Jackson, in the Creek War, later, becoming a brigadier general in the U.S. Army, and an advocate...

historically the canoe, of which there are six types: the war canoe, the freight canoe, the fishing canoe, river canoe (also called a shovel-nose canoe), the one-man...

Forty Mile Creek rather than continue their advance into Upper Canada. At this point, the Six Nations of the Grand River began to come out to fight for the...

Lake in the Kawartha Lakes, who had to fight for survival when an unforeseen thunderstorm overwhelmed their canoe trip. The film's cast includes Brendan...

1824), was a Creek chief of the Upper Creek towns who led many of the Red Sticks actions in the Creek War (1813–1814) against Lower Creek towns and against...

Tallushatchee was fought during the War of 1812 and Creek War on November 3, 1813, in Alabama between Native American Red Stick Creeks and United States dragoons...

sending warriors north. As Dragging Canoe and his fellows in the other southern tribes were forming a coalition to fight the Americans with the aid of the...

The frontier Americans associated Dragging Canoe and his band with their new town on Chickamauga Creek and began to refer to this band of Cherokee as...

allowed public access to fisheating Creek and the land around the Creek, including a waterfront park, campground, and canoe concession at Palmdale and 76,000...

sided with the British, fighting alongside the Chickamauga (Lower Cherokee) warriors of Dragging Canoe, in the Cherokee–American wars, against white settlers...

Latah Creek (southwest of Spokane). On September 23 he imposed a peace treaty, under which most of the tribes were to go to reservations. As the war wound...

Samuel Dale's 70 militia against a larger group of Red Sticks Creeks, fought entirely in canoes. Hillabee massacre 2 (November 18, 1813): An action conducted...

The Battle of Hoople's Creek, (also known as Hoople Creek), was a skirmish fought on November 10, 1813, as a precursor to the Battle of Crysler's Farm...

War in what became southeastern Washington raised fears among European settlers throughout the region. They formed large volunteer militias to fight indigenous...

present-day southern Alabama. The battle was part of the Creek War. In July 1813, Peter McQueen, a Upper Creek (Muscogee) chief, and a large party of Red Stick...

Seminole War. The war preceded with the destruction of the Negro Fort in July 1816, and subsequently Jackson's forces destroyed several Seminole/Creek and...

was fought between the Tennessee Militia and the Red Stick Creek Indians during the Creek War, in the vicinity of the present-day county and city of Talladega...

ally with them because he recognized that they used the tribes to fight their wars on the frontier. Yet he travelled to Canada to meet with the British...

By the end, she disbands her pirates and decides to venture the Creek alone in a canoe. Hannah Le (voiced by Jolie Hoang-Rappaport) is a girl who was once...

Choctaw, Yamasees, Yuchis and Creek people. The Creeks were the largest group, and included Lower Creeks and Upper Creeks, and both Hitchiti and Muscogee...