User:Muscogulus

Hi, I'm Robert P. Collins (Rob) from Birmingham, Alabama. I'm an uncompensated historian with a day job. I've published a little research on the Creek Indians of the American South, and I have an unfinished dissertation on the same subject.

My username, Muscogulus, is from an old transcription error.

• The Creek Nation is Maskogvlge in the Creek/Muskogee language (Mvskogvlge in modern spelling).
• Philadelphia naturalist William Bartram transcribed this as Muscogulge in his famous book of southern travels published in 1791. In his book's lengthy subtitle, Bartram dubbed the Creek Nation "the Muscogulges or Creek Confederacy."
• An anonymous scrivener in London, working on an 1824 bibliography, rendered the unfamiliar name Muscogulges as Muscogulus.

This accidental coinage looks like a diminutive Latin form of Mvskoke/Muscogee. This caught my fancy. I take it as a kind of parable.