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NOTICE OF A 
REMARKABLE MEMORIAL HORN, 
THE PLEDGE OF A TREATY WITH THE CREEK NATION 
IN 1765. 
BY DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., F.R.S.E., 
President of University College. 
Accidental circumstances have recently brought under my notice, 
and ultimately led to the acquisition for the museum of the Univer- 
sity of Toronto, of a curious relic of one of the great Indian con- 
federacies which still maintained its influence as the colonial history 
of the older plantations of North America drew to a close. The 
daie on the memorial horn now referred to carries the mind back to 
a period when the warriors of the Creek nation, to whom it refers, 
were still a powerful native confederacy ; and negotiated with haughty 
condescension, alike with their Indian rivals, and with the repre- 
sentatives of the Sovereign of Great Britain. The Creek nation has 
not, even now, passed away. Some of the members of the con- 
federacy still claim a share in their ancient inheritance ; but in the 
intervening century the marvellous changes which have transpired 
render the historical memorial here referred to scarcely less strange 
than if it recorded some of the first interviews with the men of the 
new world by European adventurers of the sixteenth, instead of the 
eighteenth century. 
The Creek nation is not to be confounded with the Crees of our 
Canadian North-west. An extensive tract of country in what now 
constitutes the Southern States was, in the 18th century, occupied 
by the Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Catawbas, Uchees, and 
Muscogees. To all of those the English appear to have loosely 
applied the term ‘ Creeks.” But the name strictly belongs to a 
nation formed by the union of a number of minor Indian tribes with 
the Muscogees, who occupied the country in the northern part of the 
States of Georgia and Alabama, watered by the Chatahoochee and 
the Flint rivers ; the Alabama river forming the contested boundary 
