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America was already involved in one conflict called the War of 1812, which was against the British Empire and the Indians who were their allies. However, because of the victory that the United States saw in this war against the Creek Indians, resulting in the settlers possessing areas in Alabama and Georgia, which belonged to the Indians, caused an outbreak of another war, called The Creek War (1813-14). America now found herself envolved in a modern day two front war. The great Shawnee Indian leader named Tecumseh, really expected their allies, which was the British, to come to their help in getting back the hunting grounds that they had lost to the Americans. Furthermore, Tecumseh journeyed southward on a mission to warn the Indians that their culture was being threatened by the approaching white man.

Renegades within the Creeks, called the Red Sticks, attacked the white settlers and would even fight their fellow Indian who stood in their way. In 1813, the Red Sticks brutally massacred a settlement just north of Mobile. As a response to this attack, an army of militiamen led by General Andrew Jackson completely destroyed two Indian villages.

In the spring of 1814, a great number of Creeks prepared for a battle at a village fortress located on the Tallapoosa River that they believed could not fall or be defeated by the Americans. So, in March, at the battle of Horseshoe Bend, Jackson's powerful army destroyed the Creek's defensive stance, killing hundreds of Indians, along with many women and children being put into prison. After this victory by the United States, the Indian threat of the southwest came to an end.

Finally, in August 1814, a treaty at Ft. Jackson forced the Creeks to surrender 23,000,000 acres of their land, which was more than half of Alabama and part of southern Georgia. As far as I am concerned, the Native American Indian always paid a very high price for fighting to keep what belonged to them in the first place.