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While immigrants from Europe were creating the United States, the Creek Indians created their own complex government structure. Like the American revolutionaries, the Creeks relied heavily on a representative form of government with direct citizen participation, but Creek women were involved among as well as men. In his journal, Benjamin Hawkins (1754–1816), a graduate of Princeton College and U.S. Indian agent to the Creeks, described their form of government and cultural adaptations.