 In retaliation, the next month the Red Sticks attacked Fort Mims, about 35 miles north of Mobile, Alabama, killing most of the more than 500 settlers and mixed-race Lower Creek who had taken refuge there.Osceola is believed to have been born in "Talisi", to a mixed-race Creek mother and an English father.He was among those Creek who migrated to Florida after the Creek War and joined the Seminole Indians.