Complex sentence: Red Sticks were a traditionalist faction of Muscogee Creek people in the American Southeast in the early 19th century who led a resistance movement to European-American encroachment and assimilation; tensions culminated in the outbreak of the Creek War in 1813.
Split into simpler sentences: Red Sticks were a traditionalist faction of Muscogee Creek people in the American Southeast in the early 19th century. They led a resistance movement to European-American encroachment and assimilation; tensions culminated in the outbreak of the Creek War in 1813.