American Indian Language Revitalization as Lived Experience

摘要: The Yuchi are a southeastern Woodland people who once participated in the loose social and political entity known as the Creek Confederacy. Forcibly relocated with other southeastern tribes to Indian Territory in the 1830s, they settled there alongside the Creeks but maintained a distinctive culture and a completely unrelated language (Swanton, 1922; Green, 1971).Seminoles descend largely from Creeks who fled conflict in Georgia and Alabama in the eighteenth century. Joined by individuals from several other tribes, along with some runaway African slaves, they established communities in Florida, becoming known as Seminoles. Most were later removed west of the Mississippi, only a remnant eluding capture (Sturtevant, 1971).