Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
Muscogee .
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Examples
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They numbered between twenty-five and thirty thousand souls, [7] three fourths of them being the Muscogees proper, and the remainder Seminoles.
The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776
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The Muscogees or Creeks were the strongest of all.
The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776
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The latter were merely a southern offshoot of the Creeks or Muscogees.
The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776
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Varney, lest he be overtaken on the way, avoided with a great struggle the temptation, mustered all his courage, and adopting an unprecedented expedient, turned off to the country of the Muscogees.
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He vehemently condemned the reconciliation which the government had effected between the Muscogees and the Cherokees, for although there were more deerskins to be had for export when the Indian hunters were at pacific leisure, Varney had considered the recent war between these tribes an admirable vent for gunpowder and its profitable sale; and since the savages must always be killing, it was manifestly best for all concerned that they should kill each other.
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The first had been bestowed upon him after he had gone, a mighty gun-man, against the Muscogees.
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Confederacy (or nation); and this, in turn, was practically controlled by the Muscogees.
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Upon this territory of untamed wilderness there wandered then fifty thousand Indians, the remnant of the mighty nation of Muscogees, who one hundred and thirty years ago welcomed the white man at Yamactow, now Savannah, and tendered him a home in the New World.
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This was the remnant of a tribe absorbed into the nation of the Creeks or Muscogees, and was probably one of those inferior bands inhabiting the land when this nation came from the West and took possession of the country.
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Before the creation, said the Muscogees, a great body of water was alone visible.
The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
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