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It's rolling out an update to Google Maps on Android and iOS that can speak place names in the local language. You can point a driver to a Japanese cultural center or a Spanish tapas bar without ...
Kentucky – from an Iroquoian word meaning "at the meadow" or "on the prairie" [15] (c.f. Seneca gëdá’geh [kẽtaʔkeh], "at the field"). [ 16 ] Massachusetts – from an Algonquian language of southern New England, and apparently means "near the small big mountain", usually identified as Great Blue Hill on the border of Milton and Canton ...
The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy (pronounced [məskóɡəlɡi] in the Muscogee language; English: / m ə s ˈ k oʊ ɡ iː / məss-KOH-ghee), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands [2] in the United States.
William Augustus Bowles (1763-1805) was also known as Estajoca, his Muscogee name. The State of Muskogee was a proclaimed sovereign nation located in Florida, founded in 1799 and led by William Augustus Bowles, a Loyalist veteran of the American Revolutionary War who lived among the Muscogee, and envisioned uniting the Native Americans of the Southeast into a single nation that could resist ...
The Muscogee Nation, or Muscogee (Creek) Nation, [3] is a federally recognized Native American tribe based in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The nation descends from the historic Muscogee Confederacy, a large group of indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands. They commonly refer to themselves as Este Mvskokvlke (pronounced [isti ...
The Muscogee were forced to cede lands to the United States in the early 1800s. Maps mark the strips that were ceded over the years. McIntosh played a role in negotiations and cessions of 1805, 1814 (21 million acres after the Creek War), 1818 and 1821. [24]
After Tallahassee was established, the U.S. continued to push members of the Muscogee Apalachicola Band to move west, and by 1840, most of the Muscogee-speaking Creeks were removed from the region.
The Muscogee language (Muskogee, Mvskoke IPA: in Muscogee), previously referred to by its exonym, Creek, [3] is a Muskogean language spoken by Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole people, primarily in the US states of Oklahoma and Florida. Along with Mikasuki, when it is spoken by the Seminole, it is known as Seminole.