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Muskogee

American  
[muhs-koh-gee] / mʌsˈkoʊ gi /

noun

  • Muskogees,
    plural
  • Muskogee
    plural
  1. a city in E Oklahoma.

  2. a member of an American Indian people formerly constituting part of the Creek Confederacy in Georgia and Alabama and now living in Oklahoma.

  3. Creek.


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Twice last year, the Muskogee County Sheriff’s Office put Bacone’s property up for sale to settle the debt.

From Seattle Times Feb. 3, 2024

“Remember the Ladies: Channel 9 weather girl,” Muskogee Phoenix, Sept. 24, 2020.

From Slate Aug. 31, 2023

Muskogee County District Attorney Larry Edwards said the young woman shared the text messages with him as well.

From Washington Times May 3, 2023

Clergy and religious leaders held a news conference on Monday before Atlanta City Hall to demand that the Weelaunee Forest be returned to the Muskogee people.

From Salon Mar. 7, 2023

I pulled a blanket over my head and refused to come out until we were beyond the Muskogee city limits.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Muskogees were probably driven out of Mexico by the Aztecs, Toltecs or some other of the northwestern tribal invasions of the ninth or preceding centuries.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Their affinities have not been very clearly made out, and by Albert Gallatin they were grouped with the Cherokees, Choctaws, Muskogees and Natchez.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

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