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- a member of a confederacy of American Indian peoples of the south-eastern US in the 16th to 19th centuries. The power of the Creek Indians was broken in 1814; their descendants now live mainly in Oklahoma.克里克人(16至19世纪居住在美国东南部的印第安部落联盟的成员; 克里克印第安人的影响力于1814年遭削弱, 他们的后代现主要居住在俄克拉何马州)。
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- mass noun the Muskogean language that was spoken by members of this confederacy克里克语(克里克人说的马斯科吉语)。
- of, relating to, or denoting this confederacy(与)克里克联盟(有关)的。
词源
from CREEK, because they lived beside the waterways of the flatlands of Georgia and Alabama.