English and Muskokee - Creek - Dictionary

Author: Rev. R.M. Loughridge, Elder David D Hodge
Publisher: The Westminster Press, Philadelphia
Publication date: 1914
Number of pages: 260This book is the result of improving the odd moments for many years, in collecting together the words of this wonderful language. The beginning of it was a small collection of words by Rev. John Fleming, the first Presbyterian Missionary to the Creeks, in 1832, after they moved west of the Mississippi. To that collection I have been making additions from time to time, as opportunity offered, in connection with my many duties as a minister to the people, and superintendent of several boarding schools among them. In sending forth this Dictionary to the public, I am fully aware that it is far from that state of perfection so desirable in a Lexicon. But as we learn from the history of all Dictionaries, they are like young children growing up to manhood : they must pass through many changes, additions, corrections and eliminations before they attain to the maturity and perfection of Webster's great Unabridged. Believing, therefore, that this English and Muskokee Dictionary will be one of immense advantage to all the Indians and white people, in the country, and a very important hook for all the schools in the nation ; I respectfully recommend and dedicate it to the Mnskokcc people, among whom I have spent the best years of my long life.