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<p>First edit</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Hi, I&#039;m &#039;&#039;&#039;Robert P. Collins&#039;&#039;&#039; (Rob) from Birmingham, Alabama. I&#039;m an uncompensated historian with a day job. I&#039;ve published a little research on the Creek Indians of the American South, and I have an unfinished dissertation on the same subject. <br /> <br /> My username, &#039;&#039;&#039;Muscogulus&#039;&#039;&#039;, is from an old transcription error. <br /> <br /> * The Creek Nation is &#039;&#039;Maskogvlge&#039;&#039; in the Creek/Muskogee language (&#039;&#039;Mvskogvlge&#039;&#039; in modern spelling). <br /> * Philadelphia naturalist William Bartram transcribed this as &#039;&#039;Muscogulge&#039;&#039; in his famous [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartram&#039;s_Travels book of southern travels] published in 1791. In his book&#039;s lengthy subtitle, Bartram dubbed the Creek Nation &quot;the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy.&quot; <br /> * An anonymous scrivener in London, working on an 1824 bibliography, [https://books.google.com/books?id=GYZTAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=RA1-PA66&amp;dq=muscogulus&amp;hl=en#v=onepage&amp;q=muscogulus rendered the unfamiliar name &#039;&#039;Muscogulges&#039;&#039; as &#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;Muscogulus.&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;&#039;]<br /> <br /> This accidental coinage looks like a diminutive Latin form of &#039;&#039;Mvskoke&#039;&#039;/Muscogee. This caught my fancy. I take it as a kind of parable.</div>

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