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单词 Muskogee
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Muskogee1

/ˌməˈskōɡē /
A commercial city in east central Oklahoma, on the Arkansas River; population 40,099 (est. 2008).

Muskogee2

/mʌˈskəʊɡi /
noun (plural same or Muskogees)
1A member of an American Indian people of SE North America, who formed part of the Creek Indian confederacy.As white encroachment became more and more aggressive, the Muskogees found themselves on the defensive....
  • The Muskogees were defeated and according to custom the captured spoils were divided among the victors.
  • It is not generally known, however, that the Muskogees of North Florida were the first major Indian community forcibly removed.
2 [mass noun] The Muskogean language of the Muskogee, now all but extinct.With the help of a Creek student named James Perryman, Presbyterian minister John Fleming created a phonetic alphabet for Muskogee.
adjective
Relating to the Muskogee or their language.In a similar vein, a woman of Seminole and Muskogee heritage tells of establishing ‘photographic sovereignty’ by assuming ‘responsibility to reinterpret images of Native peoples’.

Origin

From Creek ma:skó:ki.

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