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Muskogee|mʌˈskəʊgiː|
Also Muscogee, Muskhogee, Muskhokee, Muskogi, Muskohge.
[f. Creek maskóki, perh. of Algonquian origin.]
The name of a group of N. American Indians, consisting mainly of Creek Indians; also the language spoken by them; also attrib.
1775J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 161, I had a conversation..with several of the more intelligent Muskohge traders. Ibid. 392 A Muskohge warrior..got to a bramble swamp. Ibid. 430 The Cherokees and Muscogees still observe that old custom. 1836Trans. Amer. Antiq. Soc. II. 94 The Muskhogees are the prevailing nation... The Hitchittees..speak a dialect of the Muskhogee. 1868[see Creek n.3]. 1907F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 962/2 The recognized languages of the stock..are as follows:..Muskogee (including almost half the Creek confederacy, and its offshoot, the Seminole). 1948D. Diringer Alphabet i. x. 183 The Muskhokee dialect is the principal dialect of the Muskhogean group; politically, the Muskhokee were the dominant tribe of the Creek Confederacy. 1949E. A. Nida Morphology (ed. 2) vi. 159 Muskogee has some verbs of rather irregular formation which indicate differences of singular, dual, and plural subjects. 1959E. Tunis Indians 70/2 The principal tribe was the Muskhogee, called Creeks by the English. |