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Definition of Muskogean
1. Noun. A member of any of the peoples formerly living in southeastern United States and speaking Muskhogean languages.
Generic synonyms: American Indian, Indian, Red Indian
Specialized synonyms: Alabama, Choctaw, Hitchiti, Koasati, Muskogee, Seminole
2. Noun. A family of North American Indian languages spoken in the southeastern United States.
Generic synonyms: American Indian, American-indian Language, Amerind, Amerindian Language, Indian
Specialized synonyms: Alabama, Chickasaw, Chahta, Choctaw, Hitchiti, Koasati, Muskogee, Seminole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muskogean
Literary usage of Muskogean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. America's Curious Botanist: A Tercentennial Reappraisal of John Bartram by Nancy Everill Hoffmann, John C. Van Horne (2004)
"muskogean-speakers were the primary component in the Upper and Lower Towns. ...
were often from non-muskogean components or tribes of the confederation, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1917)
"In various relations of DeSoto's expedition the following Indian names for the
great stream, muskogean in origin, ..."
3. Labrador, the Country and the People by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1909)
"Southward were various tribes, chiefly muskogean, although names of the Algonquian
form are not wholly wanting over most of the southern area to the Gulf. ..."
4. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1893)
"... (muskogean) family. The Mobiles, who have left their name to the bay adjoining
the Mississippi delta; ..."
5. A Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in by Daythal Kendall, John F. Freeman (1982)
"Highland Chontal texts; 1965-1966. 3 reels of tape. Recording No. 52. Includes:
texts; grammar. Cf. No. 4545. Donor, grantee. MUSKOGEE (muskogean) [4094] ..."
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