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to Sec. War, 307, 182'2. Oc-le-wau-hau-thluc-co. — 

 Hawkins (1799), Sketch, 25, 18-18. Oklevuaha,— 

 Peniere quoted by Mor.se, Rep. to Sec. War, 311, 

 1822. Oklewaha,— Brinton, Floridian Penin., 145, 

 1859. 



Ocmulgee (Hitchiti: oki 'water', mulgis 

 'it is boilinj;' : ' boiling water ' ) . A former 

 Lower Creek town at the " Ocmulgee 

 old fields," along the e. bank of Oc- 

 mulgee r., probably in Pulaski co.,Ga., 

 which, according to Adair (Am. Ind., 36, 

 1775), the South Carolinians destroyed 

 about 1715. According to Creek tradi- 

 tion (Bartram, Trav., 52, 1792) Ocmulgee 

 "old fields" was the site of the first per- 

 manent Creek settlement after the migra- 

 tion of the tribe from the w. The Indian 

 trading road passetl through this settle- 

 ment. The "old fields," on which are 

 a number of artificial mounds, terraces, 

 and earthen inclosures, extended along 

 the river for 15 m. The people of the 

 town, who are sometimes mentioned as a 

 tribe, joined those of other settlements in 

 Oct. 1738 in tendering to Oglethorpe their 

 assurances of friendship. (a. s. g. ) 



Caiomulgi.— Aleedo, Pic. Geog., I, 310, 1780. Oak- 

 mulge. — Rafinesque, iiitrod. to Marshall, Ky., I, 

 42, 1824. Oakmulgee old fields.— Hawkins (IsOl) in 

 Am. State Pap., Ind. Aff., I, 691, 1S3J. Oakmulgee 

 old towns.— Am. State Pap. (1802), ibid., 669. Oak- 

 mulge fields.— Bartram, Travels, 53, 1792. Oak- 

 mulgis. — Romans, Florida, 90, 1775. Oakmulgos. — 

 Ibid., 280. Ocmulgee.— Hawkins (1799), Sketch, 

 83, 1848. Okmulge.— Adair, Am. Inds., 36, 1775. 

 Oxmulges. — Harris, Voy., ii, 335, 1764. 



Ocmulgee. The capital and most im- 

 portant town of the Creek Nation, situa- 

 ted on the N. fork of Canadian r., Okla. 

 Okmulgee.— Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg. , ii, 185, 1888. 



Ocmulgee. A former Lower Creek town 

 on the E. side of Flint r., Dougherty co., 

 Ga.; pop. 200 in 1834. 



Oakmulges. — Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., I, 72, 1884. 

 Oakmulgo. — Jefferys, French Dom. Am., i, 134, 

 map, 1761. Ockmalgo. — Jefferys, Am. Atlas, map 5, 

 1776. Ocumlgi. — Pliilippeaux, Map English Col., 

 1781. Okmulgi.— Gatschet, op. cit., 140. 



Ocoee ( Uwagd'hi, ' apricot-vine place ' ) . 

 A former important Cherokee settlement 

 on Ocoee r., near its junction with the 

 Hiwassee, about the present Benton, 

 Polk CO., Tenn. — Mooney in 19th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 544, 1900. 



Acohee.— Doc. of 1799 qiiotedby Rovee in5th Rep. 

 B. A. E., 144, 1887. 



Ocon. A town, probably of the Hitchiti, 

 formerly on St Marks r., n. w. Fla. — 

 Jefferys, French Dom. Am., 135, map, 

 1761. 



Oconaluftee (from Egirdmitti, 'by the 

 river'; from egwd'nl 'river', tidlut'i or 

 nutn 'near', 'beside'). Mentioned by 

 Bartram as a Cherokee town existing 

 about 1775, probably on the lower course 

 of the river of the same name, at the pres- 

 ent Bird town, on the East Cherokee res., 

 N. C. , where was formerly a considerable 

 mound. (.i. m.) 



Eg^anul'ti. — Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 517, 

 1900 (correct form). Oconaluftee. — Present map 

 form. Ocunnolufte.— Bartram, Travels, 371, 1792. 



Oconee. A small tribe of the Creek con- 

 federacy, probalily of the Hitchiti di- 

 vision, formerly living on Oconee r., Ga. 

 Oconee, their -chief town, was situated, 

 according to Hawkins, about 4 m. below 

 the present Milledgeville. Weekachumpa 

 their chief, known to the English as 

 Long-king, and one of his warriors were 

 among the Indians assembled to welcome 

 Oglethorpe wlieii he arrived in Georgia 

 in 1732. The Oconee formed one of the 

 parties to the treaty between theU. S. and 

 the Creeks at Colerain, Ga., June 29, 1796. 

 Occouys. — Harris, Vov. and Trav., ii, 335, 1764. 

 Oconas.— Drake, Bk. Inds., bk. 4, 29, 1848. Oco- 

 nees.— U. S. Ind. Treat. (1797), 69, 1837. Oconery's.- 

 Moll, map in Humphrey, Acct., 80, 1730. 



Oconee. A former small town on the e. 

 bank of Chattahoochee r., in Georgia, 

 according to Hawkins, and on the w. 

 bank, in Alabama, according to Bartram. 

 It was settled about 1710 Ijy the Oconee 

 who abandoned their old habitat on Oco- 

 nee r. , Ga. Later they established Cusco- 

 willatown on a lake in Alachua co., Fla. 

 According to Bartram, they spoke the 

 "Stincard" language, and were there- 

 fore akin to the Hitchiti. 

 Occone. — Bartram, Travels, 462, 1791. Ocones. — 

 Jefferys, Am. Atlas, map 7, 1776. Oconis. — Ro- 

 mans," Florida, 90, 1775. Okonee,— Jefferys, op. cit., 

 map 5. Okoni. — Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., i, 67, 

 1884. 



Oconee {Uktvu^nl). A former Cherokee 

 settlement on Seneca cr., near the pres- 

 ent Walhalla, in Oconee co., S. C. — 

 Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 541, 1900. 



Acounee. — Mouzon's map quoted bv Royee in 5th 

 Rep. B. A. E., 143, 1887. Oconnee.— Royce in 18th 

 Rep. B. A. E., pi. clxi, 1900. 



Oconi. A district (subtribe?) in Flor- 

 ida, about 1612, speaking a Timucuan 

 dialect, according to Pareja ( Arte Leng. 

 Timuqua, 1886). An ancient Creek town 

 in e. Georgia had the same name. See 

 Oconee. ^ (j. m.) 



Oconostota {A^ganii-std^ta, 'Groundhog- 

 sausage'). A Cherokee war chief in the 

 17th century. In the French war the 

 Cherokee were at first allies of the Eng- 

 lish, but the spread of the British settle- 

 ments and unfair and contemptuous 

 treatment changed their sentiments. 

 When they began to take reprisals for 

 barbarous acts committed by American 

 frontiersmen, and refused to surrender to 

 the perpetrators. Gov. Littleton, of South 

 Carolina, in Nov. 1759, cast into jail a 

 delegation headed by Oconostota that had 

 come to treat for the continuance of peace, 

 saying that he would make peace in the 

 Cherokee countrj'. AttacuUacuUa ob- 

 tained the exchange of Oconostota for 

 one of the murderers demanded, and 

 after the return of Littleton from a futile 

 expedition the young war chief laid siege 

 to Ft Prince George in upper South Caro- 

 lina. He called out the commander, 

 Lieut. Cotymore, for a parley and shot 



