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OCCOW OCLAWAHA 



[b. a. e. 



Hampshire, where it was incorporated as 

 Dartmouth College. As a man, Occom 

 exhibited the virtues and the failings of 

 his race. He was a regularly ordained 

 minister, having been examined and 

 licensed to preach by the clergymen of 

 Windham co.. Conn., and inducted in 

 1759 by the Suffolk presbytery. Long id. 

 His later years were marred by drunken- 

 ness and other vices, but on the whole 

 his life was one of great benefit to his race, 

 though Schoolcraft (Ind. Tribes, v, 518, 

 1855) praises him perhaps too highly. 

 See J. Edwards, Observations on the 

 Language of the Muhhekaneew Indians, 

 1789; W; De Loss Love, Samson Occom 

 and the Christian Indians of New Eng- 

 land, 1899. (a. F. c.) 



Occow, Okow. The yellow pike perch 

 {Lucloperca americana) of the northern 

 great lakes, mentioned by Eichardson in 

 Franklin's Narrative (1823) and again in 

 the Fauna Bor. Amer., ii, 1836. The 

 name has since been adopted in ichthyo- 

 logical works. It is from Cree okav; 

 cognate with Chippewa oka. (w. r. g. ) 



Ocha ( ' rain-cloud ' ) . Given by Bourke 

 (Jour. Am. Folk-lore, ii, 181, 1889) as a 

 clan of the Mohave, (}. v. 



Ochecliote (Tenino: 'hind dorsal fin [of 

 a salmon] ' ). A small Shahaptian tribe, 

 speaking the Tenino language, formerly 

 living on the x. side of Columbia r., in 

 Klickitat co. , Wash. They were included 

 in the Yakima treaty of Camp Stevens, 

 Wash., June 9, 1855, by which, with 

 other tribes, they ceded their lands to the 

 United States. If any survive they are 

 probably incorporated with other tribes 

 on the Yakima res. Their name has 

 reference to a rock on the n. side of 

 Columbia r., opposite the upper end of 

 an island near the mouth of the Des 

 Chutes. 



Ochecholes.— U. S. Stat, xu, 951, 1863. Uchi'- 

 chol.— Mooney in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 740, 1896. 



Ocheese ('people'). A former Semi- 

 nole town on the w. side of Apalachicola 

 r., at Ocheese bluff, the site of the present 

 town of Ocheese, Jackson co., Fla. Pop. 

 220 in 1822, 230 in 1826. 

 Ocheeses.— Morse, Rep. to Sec. War, 364, 1822. 

 Ochesos.— Drake, Bk. Inds., ix, 1848. 



Ocheese. A former Lower Creek town 

 on the E. bank of Chattahoochee r., w. 

 central Georgia. 

 Okesez, — Jeffreys, Am. Atlas, map 5, 1776. 



Ochete. A town visited by De Soto in 

 1539-40, apparently in n. w. Florida, at 

 the head of St ]\Iarks bay, 4 leagues from 

 the gulf. Buckingham Smith identifies 

 it with the Ante of Narvaez. It is not 

 the Ocute of Biedma. See Gentleman of 

 Elvas (1.557) in French, Hist. Coll. La., 

 II, 135, 1850. 



Ochiakenen. A tribe or band mentioned 

 by Hennepin (New Discov., 313, 1698) as 



living about 1675 in the same village with 

 the Miami and Mascoutens. See OrJnata- 

 gongu. 



Ochiatagonga. An unidentified tribe 

 mentioned by La Salle, in 1682 plargry, 

 Dec, II, 237, 1877) in connection with 

 Islinois (Illinois), Chaouanons (Shaw- 

 nee), and others, as among those living 

 s. w. from L. Erie and destroyed (?) by 

 the Iroquois. Cf. Ochiakenen. 



Ochionagueras. An Onondaga war 

 chief, called also Achiongeras, baptized 

 by Father Le Moyne, Aug. 15, 1654, as 

 Jean BajUiste, that being the name of 

 Le Moyne's companion. He successfully 

 led the Irociuois against the Erie. He 

 headed Dablon's escort in Mar. 1656, and 

 the ne.xt year was at Montreal in time to 

 refute some Mohawk slanders. Ochion- 

 agueras was then described as an Onon- 

 daga captain, who "procured by his 

 influence the peace which we have with 

 the upper Iroquois." (\v. m. b.) 



Ochoyos. A Costanoan village situated 

 in 1819 within 10 m. of Santa Cruz mis- 

 sion, Cal. — Tavlor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 

 5, 1860. 



Ochuceulga, A former Seminole town 

 of 250 inhaV)itants e. of Apalachicola r., 

 N. w. Fla. Cothrin was chief in 1822. 

 The name is a form of Ochisi-algi. Cf. 

 Ocheese. 

 0-chuce-ulga.— Morse, Rep. to Sec. War, 307, 1822. 



Ochupocrassa. A former Seminole town 

 on "East Florida point," with about 30 

 warriors in 1820, who had moved down 

 from the Upper Creeks. — Bell quoted by 

 Morse, Rep. to Sec. War, 307, 1822. 



Ocilla. A former Seminole town at the 

 mouth of Ocilla r., once called Assilly cr., 

 on theE. bank, in Taylor co., Fla. Latu- 

 fixico was its chief in 1823. 

 Osoillee.— H. R. Ex. Doc. 74, 19th Cong., 1st sess., 

 27, 1826. 



Ockneharuse. An unidentified tribe 

 mentioned in 1747 as living in the Ohio 

 valley, and said to number 1,500 or 2,000, 

 exceeding both the Wea and the Missi- 

 sauga in pojniiation (Doc. of 1747 in 

 N. Y. Doc. Col. Hist., vi, 391, 1855). 

 They were possibly the Miami. 



Oclackonayahe. A former Seminole 

 village "above Tampa bay," w. Fla.; 

 probably on or near Okliakonkonhee 

 lake, Polk co.— Bell quoted bv Morse, 

 Rep. to Sec. War, 306, 1822. 



Oclawaha. A former Seminole town on 

 Oclawaha r. in n. central Florida. The 

 Oclawaha division of the Seminole, de- 

 scended from the Yamasi, betray their 

 origin by the dark color of the skin 

 (McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, i, 272, 

 1854). Coe Hadjos Town (q. v.), which 

 appears on Taylor's war map of 1839 just 

 E. of Oclawaha r., mav be the same. 

 Ochlewahaw.— McKenney "and Hall, Ind. Tribes, 

 X, 272, isri4. Oclawahas,— Williams, Florida, 231, 

 1837. Oc-la-wa-haw.— Bell quoted by Morse, Rep. 



