Mikasuki
Americannoun
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a member of an American Indian people, formerly part of the Creek Confederacy and surviving chiefly as one of the two branches of the Muskogean family represented among the Florida Seminoles.
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the Muskogean language of the Mikasuki.
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Etymology
Origin of Mikasuki
< a native town name
Example Sentences
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In the Mikasuki language, Immokalee means “My Home,” and the pride of the people who choose to stay can be as thick as the July humidity.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2022
About 1810 these people had twenty towns, the chief ones being Mikasuki and Tallahassee.
From A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith
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