Andrew Jackson and his wife, Rachel, adopted and raised a Creek Indian boy orphaned from one of Jackson's own military campaigns against the Creeks. They treated him kindly. Yet in other ways, Jackson's relations with Native Americans were violent and destructive. This history started in 1813, when Jackson was given command of a group of militia in the field to fight the Creek Indians. The British had gotten the Creeks and other Native Americans to help them threaten the Southern frontier during the War of 1812. Why was Jackson suddenly called into action against the Creeks?