About the author

Jack B. Martin is a linguist at William & Mary in Virginia. He began studying the Mvskoke language in 1986. He has collaborataed with the late Margaret McKane Mauldin and Juanita McGirt on several books about Mvskoke:

• Martin, Jack B., and Margaret McKane Mauldin. A Dictionary of Creek/Muskogee. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2000.
• Gouge, Earnest. Totkv Mocvse / New Fire: Creek Folktales. Ed. and trans. by Jack B. Martin, Margaret McKane Mauldin, and Juanita McGirt. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 2004.
• Martin, Jack B. A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee). Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2011.
• Haas, Mary, and James Hill. 2015. Creek (Muskogee) Texts. Ed. by Jack Martin, Margaret Mauldin, and Juanita McGirt. University of California Press.