Definitions
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- noun
Muskogee - proper noun
Muskogee
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- noun a family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States
- noun a member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages
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Examples
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The Hitchiti were a Muskhogean tribe formerly residing in a town of the same name on the east bank of Chattahoochee river, and possessing a narrow strip of good land bordering on the river, in west Georgia.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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The Muskhogean peoples arrived in their aboriginal area sometime after 1000 BC.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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The Uchee, Natchee, and Sawanugi were incorporated tribes, differing radically in language from each other and from the Muskhogean tribes.
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The Hichitee represent the conquered or otherwise incorporated Muskhogean tribes of the Georgia coast region.
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-- This tribe, of Muskhogean stock, formerly occupied northern Mississippi and adjacent portions of Alabama and Tennessee, and at an early period had incorporated also several smaller tribes on Yazoo River in central Mississippi, chief among which were the cognate Chokchuma.
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A tribe of Muskhogean stock and somewhat superior culture, living when first known on the west bank of the Mississippi, within the present limits of Tensas parish, Louisiana, and numbering perhaps
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Ocilla River, where they bordered upon the celebrated Apalachee, of another (Muskhogean) stock.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Muskhogean or Creek family, though some philologists consider the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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(Sioux, etc.) tribes moved westward from the Atlantic seaboard, while the Muskhogean of the Gulf states had their earlier home west of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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In their government these Muskhogean tribes appear to have attained
The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Ellsworth Huntington 1911
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