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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.
Letohatchee - from the Muscogee li ito fachita (those who make arrows straight). [1] Loachapoka - from the Muscogee loca poga (where the turtles live/sit) (from the words Loca and vpoketv) . [1] Lubbub and Lubbub Creek - from the Choctaw word lahba, which means "warm". [24] Nanafalia - from the Choctaw words nanih (hill) and falaiya (long). [25]
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Muscogee Creek land cessions 1733–1832 Ceded area as deemed by the Treaty of Fort Jackson in 1814. Land was the most valuable asset, which the Native Americans held in collective stewardship. The southern English colonies, US government and settlers systematically obtained Muscogee land through treaties, legislation, and warfare.
Muscogee Creek - The College of the Muscogee Nation offers a Mvskoke language certificate program. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] Tulsa public schools, the University of Oklahoma [ 25 ] and Glenpool Library in Tulsa [ 26 ] and the Holdenville, [ 27 ] Okmulgee, and Tulsa Creek Indian Communities of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation [ 28 ] offer Muskogee Creek language ...
Several sparsely attested languages have been claimed to be Muskogean languages. George Broadwell suggested that the languages of the Yamasee and Guale were Muskogean. [13] [14] However, William Sturtevant argued that the "Yamasee" and "Guale" data were Muscogee and that the language(s) spoken by the Yamasee and Guale people remain unknown. [15]
Ochillie – a creek that flows northwest through Chattahoochee county, within the boundaries of the Fort Benning military reservation, and into Upatoi creek; Schatulga – a small community in western Columbus/Muscogee County; Toccoa; Upatoi – a creek that runs between Muscogee and Chattahoochee counties in west-central Georgia
The Muscogee Creek confederacy was composed of autonomous tribal towns, governed by their own elected leadership. The Creek originated in the Southeastern United States, in what is now Alabama and Georgia. They were collectively removed from the southeast to Indian Territory under the United States' Indian Removal Policy of the 1830s. [3] [4]