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Kl’CHKK INDIAN'S.The I* im‘st of All the IndianClans.Li villi' around Wealnka and Kelly-\ille In iho Creek nation are the Kuehee Indians. This is the purest of :.!! the Indian tlans. They have tor one hundred years been known as Creeks hut they were a conquered independent tribe, and even though subjugated by the Creeks and now a i’nit nf that tribe, they retain a dis-tinci language and seldom marry outbid,, of i heir clan. It is this cl snnishtiesK that lias maintained more pine Indiian blood among the i uchees than is ordinarily found.The Eurhee children are taught their own language and are discouraged in speaking Creek. Noah Gregory, now an old man, tells of the days when he was a lad, how his father whipped him whenever he ‘aught him speaking the Creek language instead of the Euchee. Often now where a‘ Euehoe has married « woman who speaks the Creek language one can find a Euchee child who will talk to his mother in Creek but to his father always iiu the Euchre language.The Euchees are provincial in the habitat, as well as In society. Ail of the clan live in touch with each other and they do not scatter over iho Territory like otiier tribes havedone. The Creeks scatter everywhere. A lot. of lost Creeks have just been found in the Cherokee nail jn where they have lived in the mountains ever since the close of the civil war. There are also Creeks in the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole nations and some in Oklahoma, hut. the Euchoos never scatter. \ pci son who can speak Creek fluently can carry on a limited conversation with a Euchee but it is very difficult to make the Indian understand.
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New State Tribune
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Feb 14, 1907
Page 8
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