| Creeks who avoided relocation to Oklahoma tended to stop speaking the Muskogean language so they would not be recognized as Indians and therefore forced to leave their homes. |
|
| My people are the Muskogean people and they have the Creek name. |
|
| The indigenous peoples of the Southeast represent members of the Muskogean, Siouan, Iroquoian, and Caddoan language families. |
|
| Four tribes of the lower Mississippi valley the Natchez, Chitimachas, Tunicas, and Atakapas spoke languages with a distant affinity to Muskogean. |
|
| Dual number is found in Eskimo and in the Athabascan, Siouan, Iroquoian, Muskogean, and Plateau Shoshoni groups in North America, and Araucanian and others in South America. |
|
| She continued her fieldwork on, and comparative studies of, American Indian languages, especially of the southeastern U. S., including the Natchez and Muskogean languages, for the rest of her life. |
|
| However, their languages show sufficient divergence from the main Muskogean languages and from each other to warrant semi-independent status as linguistic isolates. |
|
