Muskogean

the Athapaskan, Siouan, Muskogean families, and the South American Tupi-Guarani family) have active typology.

The Rabbit-Trickster's integration across four major language groups -- Algonquian, Siouan, Muskogean, Iroquoian -- and geographically from the Arctic to the tropics and from the Great Plains to the Atlantic shores, as well as Mesoamerica and northern South America, would seem to bear out Powell's concern expressed to Harris and likewise satisfy von der Leyden's folk tale homeland criteria.

Martin writes that the Alabamas did not speak a Muskogean language (p.

No fewer than five of this volume's thirty-six papers deal with Muskogean languages (Cline, Crawford, Hardy and Montler, Kimball, and Ulrich) and grouping them together after the Northwest coast pieces would have illustrated the vitality, nearly sixty years later, of ongoing research in this field whose pioneer linguist was Mary Haas.

While most other Algonquian groups traded beaver with colonial newcomers, and while Southeastern Muskogeans specialized in deerskins, the Illinois were specialists in bison.

Section 2 enters more into detail on the missions among the eastern Iroquoian tribes, the Algonkians, and the Muskogeans of the American southeast.