Star.
London, England, 1815-11-18 00:00:00

CREEK INDI.I4VS.

(£l'.OM TIM GEORGIA JOURNIAL.)
Notwithstanding our vicinity to the Creek Indians,
few ot us know any thing of their manners and cus-
toms. 'll.e f lowing articles on this subject are
copied fr,im a manuscript •' Sketch of the Cfeek
Nation," drawn up by CA,inel ll.Awsus, soon after
lit ing appointtd Agent fur Indian Affairs:
%VAR.—This is always &let mined on by • .e Great
Warrior. NVlwit the Ali:co and Counsellors are of
oisinion that the town has been injured, he lifts the
war hatchet against the nation that has injured them.
But as soon us it is taken up, the Micco and Counsel-
lors may interfere., and by their prudent counsels
stop it, and procted to adjust the misunderstanding
by negociation.
It the great warrior per and go out, he is fol-
lowed by .111 who are for war. It is seldom a town
is unanimous ; the nation never is : and within the
memory of the oldest rnan among them, it is not
recollected that more than one half of the nation
hare been at war at the same time, or taken, as they
express it, the war talk.

;11he great warrior, when he marches, gives notice
wk.re he shall encamp, and sets oil, sometimes with
one or two only. -He fires off his gun, and rats up
war whoop. This is repeated by all who follow
him, and they are sometimes for one or.two nights
marching off.
PEACli—is invariably concluded by the Micco and
Counsellors, and peace talks are always addressed to
the cabin of the Micco. In some cases, when the
tcsentment of the warriors has run high, the Micco
and council have been embarrassed.

MARUIAGEo.--A man who wants a wife, never ap-
plies in person. He sends his sister, his mother, or
some other female relation, to the woman he martyrs.
They consult the brothers and uncles oil the mater-
nal side, and sometimes the father : [sat this is a
compliment only, as his approbation cr his opposi-
tion is of no avaii. If the party applied to approves
of the match, they answer accordorgly to the man
who made the ::;•plication. The bridegroom then
gets together a blanket and such other articles of
clothing as he is able to do, and sends them to the
family of the blicix : if they accept them the match
is made, and he may then go to her house as soon as
he chooses. When he has built a house, made his
crop and gathered it in, made his hunt, brought hnn:e
the meat, and put all this in the possession of his
wile, the ceremony ends, and they are married ; or,
as they express it, the woman is bound. From the
first going to the house of the woman, till the cere-
mony ends, he is completely in possession of her.
DIVORCE—is at the choice of either of the parties.
The man may marry again as soon as he will, but
the woman is bound till all the boosketeau of that
year are over, excepting in the cases of marriage and
parting in the season, the man resides at the house of
the woman, and has possession of her pending the
marriage ceremony; in that case, the woman is
equally free to connect herself as soon as she pleases.
['There is an inconsistency in the exception men-
tioned above, as in such season there can be no mar-
riage ; but the chiefs in their report on this article,
mentioned it as an exception, and this practice in the