Muscogee

noun

Mus·​co·​gee mə-ˈskō-gē 

variants or Muskogee

1

plural Muscogee or Muscogees or Muskogee or Muskogees : a member of the people who comprised the nucleus of the Creek confederacy : creek sense 2a

Note: The Muscogee existed as a confederacy of tribes, with members known to English settlers as Creek, in the southeastern U.S. before their forcible removal to Indian Territory in 1836 to 1840. Present-day members live under the name Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

2

: the Muskogean language of this people : creek sense 2b

also : the dialect of Creek spoken in Oklahoma

Examples of Muscogee in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The park holds special significance to the Muscogee (Creek) people like Revis, who lived here before being displaced to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. —Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2024

The Muscogee Creek headman Tomochichi, for example, visited London in 1734 and expressed surprise that the British king lived in a palace with an unnecessarily large number of rooms. —Kathleen Duval, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024

Promising 'low-carbon future,' mining company to pump $2 billion into Arizona zinc mine The initiative has already faced criticism from the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee and Seminole nations in Oklahoma. —The Arizona Republic, 15 Feb. 2024

The gateway to the park is the city of Macon, where the Muscogee (Creek) Nation flag flies alongside the Stars and Stripes, and the street signs are being replaced with ones written in both Muscogee and English. —Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023

Walker was then taken to Muscogee County Jail ahead of his court hearing. —Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023

The state’s attorneys cite previous cases where other tribes, including the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma and the Lone Pine Paiute Shoshone Indians Tribe in California also had civil rights cases dismissed for that reason. —Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2023

The show was staffed by Indigenous talent and crew, worked to cultivate Native stories from the inside out, and was shot in Oklahoma on the grounds of the Muscogee Nation. —Jason Parham, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023

The founder of a school, a local artist, and a descendant of the Indigenous Muscogee people who once lived in the forest each made their own cases against the project. —Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2023

Word History

Etymology

Creek ma·skó·ki, maskó·ki, a self-designation

First Known Use

1751, in the meaning defined at sense 1