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OCOTA OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 



[ B. A. E. 



him, whereon the garrison Imtcheredthe 

 Cherokee chiefs confined as hostages. 

 Oconostota then fell upon the frontier 

 settlements of Carolina, while the Cher- 

 okee warriors over the mountains cap- 

 tured Ft Louden in Tennessee. Col. 

 Montgomery at the head of 1,600 men re- 

 lieved Ft Prince George and destroyed 

 the lower Cherokee towns, then marched 

 to the succor of Ft Louden, but was 

 routed in a fierce battle. After the war 

 Oconostota became civil chief of the na- 

 tion. The ancient war between the 

 Cherokee and the Iroquois was termi- 

 nated by a treaty which Oconostota went 

 to New York to sign in 1768. The con- 

 test for their ancestral land, which caused 

 their sympathies to swerve from the 

 English to the French in the earlier war, 

 made the Cherokee eager allies of the 

 British against the Americans in the war 

 of the Revolution. The tribe suffered 

 severely in the cf)ntest and at its close 

 Oconostota resigned the chiefship to his 

 son, Tuksi, 'The Terrapin.' He died 

 about 1783. See Mooney, Myths of the 

 Cherokee, 19th Rep. B. A. E., 1900. 



Ocota (contraction of Okotsali, 'where 

 there is resinous pine wood'). A small 

 aggregation of Iluichol ranches, contain- 

 ing a temple, situated near a small branch 

 of the Rio Chapalagana, about 12 m. e. of 

 the main stream, in Jalisco, Mexico 

 (Lumholtz, Unknown Mex., ii, 16, map, 

 258, 1902). It is distinct from Guadalupe 

 Ocotan. 



Okotsali. — Lumholtz, ibid., 258 (proper Huichol 

 name). 



Ocotan. A former Tepehuane pueblo 

 in Durango, Mexico, and seat of a Spanish 

 mission. 



Huk-tyr. — A. Hrdlieka, infn, 1906. Santa Maria de 

 Ocotan. — Ibid, (present name of town). Santa 

 Uaria Ocotan. — Lumholtz, Unknown Mex., I, 469, 

 1902. S. Francisco Ocotan. — Orozco y Berra, Geog. , 

 318, 1864. 



Octashepas. A tribe of the lower Mis- 

 sissippi, mentioned by Bossu in connection 

 with the Taskiki (Tuskegee), Tonica 

 (Tunica), Alibamu, etc. Possibly in- 

 tended for Okchayi, q. v. 

 Oaktashippas. — Romans, Fla., 101, 1775. Octashe- 

 pas.— Bossu (1759), Travels La., i, 229, 1771. 



Ocuca. A former rancheria of the Pima 

 in Sonora, IVIexico, near Rio San Ignacio, 

 N. w. of Santa Ana. 



Occuca. — Orozco v Berra, Geog., 347, 1884. Ocuca. — 

 Rudo Ensayo (ca. 1763), 161, 1863. Oocuca.— 

 Ibid., 152. 



Ocute. A town, probably in southern 

 Georgia, entered by De Soto's troops oa 

 April 10, 1540. It was situated between 

 Altamaha and Cofaqui. 



Cofa.— Gareilasso de la Vega, Florida, 112, 1723. 

 Ocute.— Gentl. of Elvas (1557) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., n, 139, 1850; Biedma in Hakluvt Soc. 

 Pub., IX, 179, 1851. 



Odanah. A Chippewa settlement on 

 Bad River res., Ashland co., Wis. — Brown 

 in Wis. Archeol., v, 293, 1906; Ind. Aff. 

 Rep., 394, 1906. 



Odiserundy. A prominent warrior in 

 the Revolution, often called John the 

 Mohawk, and in chief command of a war 

 party in 1777. The name is now written 

 Deseronto, 'The lightning has stri;ck.' 

 In the New York State Library at Albany 

 is a letter from John Deserontyon, dated 

 Bay of Quinte, Nov. 1796, where he headed 

 a band of Mohawk. He was present at a 

 treaty with the Ihiited States after the 

 Revolution. A place in Canada bears his 

 name. (w. m. b.) 



Odoesmades. A tribe, evidently Coa- 

 huiltecan, living in 1690 a short distances, 

 of the Rio Grande, on the way from cen- 

 tral Coahuila to e. Texas. In the year 

 named many of this tribe were seen in 

 that locality, together with Mescaleros 

 (evidently not the Mescalero Apache) 

 and Momones, but when Teriln went 

 through the same country in 1691 he saw 

 none. Many buffalo were seen here by 

 Teran ( Descripcion y Diario Demarcacion, 

 1691-92, in Mem. de Nueva Espaiia, xxvii, 

 25, MS.). (h. E. B.) 



Odshiapofa ( ' hickory ground ' ) . A town 

 of the Creek Nation, on the North fork of 

 Canadian r., below the mouth of Alabama 

 cr., Okla. (Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., 

 II, 186, 1888). The name was formerly 

 applied to a Creek town in Alabama, 

 otherwise known as Little Talasse. See 

 Talasse. . 



Odshisalgi ( ' hickory-nut people ' ) . One 

 of the extinct clans of the Creeks. Some 

 have regarded the name as representing 

 simply the people of Ocheese, a former 

 town of the Lower Creeks in central 

 Georgia. 



O-che.— Morgan, Anc. Soc, 161, 1878. Odshisalgi.— 

 Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., I, 156, 1884. 



Odukeo's band [O-duk-e-o, 'Tall man'). 

 The name of a Paviotso chief, applied also 

 to his band formerly around Carson and 

 Walker lakes, w. Nev. In 1861 they were 

 said to number 1,261, including the Petod- 

 seka band. 



Odakeo.— Burton, City of Saints, 576, 1861. O-duk- 

 e-o's (Tall Man) band.— Dodge in Ind. Aff. Rep. 

 18.59, 374, 1860. 



Oealitk ( C/hdUx). A sept of the Bella- 

 bella, a Kwakiutl tribe inhabiting the s. 

 shore of Millbank sd., Brit. Col. 

 O'ealit^.- Boas in 6th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 52, 

 1890. O'ealitx.— Boas in Rep. Nat. Mus. 1895, 328, 

 1897. Onie-le-toch.— Kane, Wand, in N. A., app., 

 1859. Owia-lei-toh.— Tolmieand Dawson, Vocabs. 

 Brit. Col., 117b, 1884 Oyelloightuk.— Brit. Col. 

 map, Ind. Aff., Victoria, 1872. 



Oetlitk ( Oe^Litx). A sept of the Bella- 

 bella, which, according to Tolmie and 

 Dawson, occupied the middle section of 

 Millbank sd., British Columbia. 

 Oe'Litx.^Boas in Rep. Nat. Mus. 1895, 328,1897. 

 Oe'tlitq.— Boas in 6th Rep. N. W. Tribes Can., 52, 

 1890. Okatlituk.— Brit. Col. map, Ind. Aff., Vic- 

 toria, 1872. Owit-lei-toh.— Tolmie and Dawson, 

 Vocabs. Brit. Col., 117b, 1884. Weetle-toch.--Kane, 

 Wand, in N. A., app., 1859. Weitle toch.— School- 

 craft, Inrt. Tribes, V, 487, 1855. 



Oflace of Indian Aflfairs. When the War 

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