Two subgroups of this tribe bitterly dispute a sacred site called Hickory Ground. A landmark 1851 state supreme court case evaluated this tribe’s matrilineal huti clan system and norms of serial monogamy when a rebel leader’s son sued half-brothers born to Polly Moniac. This tribe’s McGhee Reserve became the center of its Poarch Band. William Augustus Bowles married into this tribe and declared a short-lived state named for it. A micco led each of the talwa loosely confederated into this tribe, whose centralization was promoted by the Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins and opposed by the “Law Menders” police force led by William McIntosh. William Weatherford helped lead a faction that drew mainly from this tribe’s “Lower Towns” in the “Old Southwest,” which lost the Battle of Burnt Corn. For 10 points, name this tribe whose “Red Sticks” lost a namesake 1814 war to Andrew Jackson. ■END■
ANSWER: Muskogee (“muh-SKOH-ghee”) Creek [or Muscogee Creek; or Mvskoke; accept State of Muskogee; accept Poarch Band of Creek Indians until “Poarch” is read] (The second sentence refers to the Alabama Supreme Court Case Weatherford v. Weatherford.)
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