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Mikasuki

or Mic·co·su·kee

[ mik-uh-soo-kee ]

noun

, plural Mik·a·su·kis, (especially collectively) Mik·a·su·ki
  1. 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.
  2. the Muskogean language of the Mikasuki.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Mikasuki1

< a native town name

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Example Sentences

About 1810 these people had twenty towns, the chief ones being Mikasuki and Tallahassee.

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