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==Current status== Muscogee is the primary heritage language of the Muscogee people. The Muscogee Nation offers free language classes and immersion camps to Muscogee children.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.muscogeenation-nsn.gov/Pages/Language/language.html |title=Muscogee (Creek) Nation |access-date=2015-07-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715074343/http://www.muscogeenation-nsn.gov/Pages/Language/language.html |archive-date=2015-07-15 }}</ref> ===Language programs=== [[File:Thlopthlocco sign.jpg|thumb]] The [[College of the Muscogee Nation]] offers a language certificate program.<ref>[http://www.mvsktc.org/academics.html "Academics."] ''College of the Muscogee Nation.'' (retrieved 27 Dec 2010)</ref><ref>{{Cite news | last = Pratt, Stacey | title = Language vital part of cultural identity | work = Tahlequah Daily Press | access-date = 2013-04-17 | date = 2013-04-15 | url = http://tahlequahdailypress.com/local/x1915232574/Language-vital-part-of-cultural-identity }}</ref> [[Tulsa]] public schools, the [[University of Oklahoma]]<ref>[http://www.ou.edu/anthropology/Programs/Native_Language/creek.html "Creek,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110224054236/http://www.ou.edu/anthropology/Programs/Native_Language/creek.html |date=2011-02-24 }} ''University of Oklahoma: The Department of Anthropology.''(retrieved 27 Dec 2010)</ref> and Glenpool Library in Tulsa<ref>[http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2338:library-presents-mvskoke-creek-language-class&catid=43&Itemid=19 "Library Presents Mvskoke (Creek) Language Class."] ''Native American Times.'' 8 Sept 2009 (retrieved 27 Dec 2010)</ref> and the Holdenville,<ref>[http://www.themuscogeecreeknation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=178%3Aholdenville-indian-community&catid=37%3Acommunities&Itemid=12 "Holdenville Indian Community."] ''Muscogee (Creek) Nation.'' (retrieved 27 Dec 2010)</ref> Okmulgee, and Tulsa Muscogee Communities of the [[Muscogee Nation]]<ref>[http://www.themuscogeecreeknation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=279&Itemid=12 "Thunder Road Theater Company to perform plays in the Mvskoke (Creek) Language."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715090413/http://www.themuscogeecreeknation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=279&Itemid=12 |date=2015-07-15 }} ''Muscogee (Creek) Nation.'' (retrieved 27 Dec 2010)</ref> offer Muscogee Creek language classes. In 2013, the [[Sapulpa, Oklahoma|Sapulpa]] Creek Community Center graduated a class of 14 from its Muscogee language class.<ref>{{Cite news |last = Brock |first = John |title = Creek language class graduates 14 |work = [[Sapulpa Daily Herald|Sapulpa Herald Online]] |location = [[Sapulpa, Oklahoma]] |access-date = 2013-08-23 |date = 2013-08-17 |url = http://www.sapulpaheraldonline.com/articles/2013/08/17/news/doc520f9abf0671b330695807.txt |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130823224113/http://www.sapulpaheraldonline.com/articles/2013/08/17/news/doc520f9abf0671b330695807.txt |archive-date = 2013-08-23 }}</ref> In 2018, 8 teachers graduated from a class put on by the Seminole nation at Seminole State College to try and reintroduce the Muscogee language to students in elementary and high school in several schools around the state.
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