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Round 12: Tossup 8

A sovereign nation named for this tribe was established by a Loyalist veteran who looted the Panton, Leslie, and Company store, only to be captured by Spain. This tribe’s Chief Opothleyahola (-5[1])(“oh-POTH-lay-ah-HO-la”) faced Confederate attacks on the Trail of Blood on Ice. This tribe, whose members included William Augustus Bowles, exiled (10[1])the Yamacraw chief Tomochichi. Peter McQueen and William (10[1])Weatherford led this Hitchiti-speaking tribe in an attack on white residents of Fort Mims, (-5[1])35 miles north of Mobile. This tribe’s Red Stick faction fought against the United States during a series of wars that included the Battle of Burnt Corn. For 10 points, the Treaty of Fort Jackson ended a war named after what tribe that clashed with Andrew Jackson in the Southeastern US? ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Muscogee [or Muscogee Creek; or Mvskoke; or State of Muscogee; prompt on Red Sticks until read]
<Oxford A, American History> | Packet-I_Berkeley-A_Cambridge-B_Notre-Dame-A_Oxford-A
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