A Brutal ReckoningBy: Peter Cozzens The story of the pivotal struggle between the Creek Indians and an insatiable, young United States for control over the Deep Southfrom the acclaimed historian and prize winning author of The Earth is Weeping The Creek War is one of the most tragic episodes in American history, leading to the greatest loss of Native American life on what is now U. S. soil. What began as a vicious internal conflict among the Creek Indians metastasized