In July 1811, Tecumseh again met Harrison at Vincennes. He told the governor he had amassed a confederacy of northern tribes and was heading south to do the same. For the next six months, Tecumseh traveled some in the south and west to recruit allies. The documentary evidence of this journey is fragmentary, and was exaggerated in folklore, but he probably met with Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, Osages, western Shawnees and Delawares, Iowas, Sauks, Foxes, Sioux, Kickapoos, and Potawatomis. He was aided in his efforts by two extraordinary events: the Great Comet of 1811 and the New Madrid earthquake, which he and other Indians interpreted as omens that his confederacy should be supported. Many rejected his overtures, especially in the south; his most receptive southern listeners were among the Creeks. A faction among the Creeks, who became known as the Red Sticks, responded to Tecumseh's call to arms, contributing to the coming of the Creek War.