"Away back in that time in--1492--there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man ... What did he find when he first arrived here? Did he find a white man standing on the continent then? ... I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me."
--CHITTO HARJO, CREEK
In the north the scarlet council fires burned long and high on frost-touched nights in the spring of 1813. It was the Moon of the Running ...