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Muscogee Nation. The Muscogee Nation, or Muscogee (Creek) Nation, [3] is a federally recognized Native American tribe based in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The nation descends from the historic Muscogee Confederacy, a large group of indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands.
Creek. Look up creek in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A creek in North America and elsewhere, such as Australia, is a stream that is usually smaller than a river. In the British Isles it is a small tidal inlet. Creek may also refer to: Creek people, a former name of Muscogee, Native Americans. Creek language or Muscogee language.
The point at which the stream discharges, possibly via an estuary or delta, into a static body of water such as a lake or ocean. A segment where the water is deeper and slower moving. A turbulent, fast-flowing stretch of a stream or river. A segment where the flow is shallower and more turbulent.
Muscogee. The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy (pronounced [məskóɡəlɡi] in the Muscogee language; English: / məsˈkoʊɡiː / məss-KOH-ghee), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands [2] in the United States. Their historical homelands are ...
Alexander McGillivray, also known as Hoboi-Hili-Miko (December 15, 1750 – February 17, 1793), was a Muscogee (Creek) leader. The son of a Muscogee mother and a Scottish father, he was literate and educated, and understood the "white" European world and merchandise trading well. These gave him prestige, especially with European Americans, who ...
The terms river morphology and its synonym stream morphology are used to describe the shapes of river channels and how they change in shape and direction over time. The morphology of a river channel is a function of a number of processes and environmental conditions, including the composition and erodibility of the bed and banks (e.g., sand, clay, bedrock); erosion comes from the power and ...
Daylighting (streams) The daylighted Saw Mill River in Getty Square, Yonkers, New York, had been covered by a parking lot. A short stretch of Lower Marin Creek in UC Village in Albany, California has been daylighted. Daylighting is the opening up and restoration of a previously buried watercourse, one which had at some point been diverted below ...
A small stream (esp. with a rocky bottom); creek. [5] Lincolnshire to Cumbria in areas which were once occupied by the Danes and Norwegians. [6] Bight: A large and often only slightly receding bay, or a bend in any geographical feature. Billabong: an oxbow lake; a pond or still body of water created when a river changes course and some water ...