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OSHACH OSKELAGNA 



[b. a. e. 



It was situated near a large confluent of 

 Mohawk r., between the third and fourth 

 castles of the Mohawk, e. of the village 

 of Cawaoge, which was about 1 m. e. of 

 the fourth castle of that date. This may 

 have been a town of the Wolf clan, as 

 Van Curler learned that the .principal 

 chief of this village was known as Oguoho, 

 i. e. 'Wolf.' It was probably distinct 

 from Osquake. (j. n. b. h. ) 



Ohquage, Van Curler (1634-35) in Rep. Am. Hist. 

 Ass'n 1S95, 98, 1896. 



Oshach. The Sun clans of the Keresan 

 pueblos of Laguna, Acoma, Sia, San 

 Felipe, and Cochiti, N. Mex. The Sun 

 clan of Laguna claims to have come origi- 

 nally from San Felipe; that of Acoma 

 forms a phratry with the Huwaka (Sky) 

 clan. (p. w. H. ) 



Hano Oshatch. — Lummis, New Mex. David, 48, 

 1891 (evidently^ applied here to the Aeoma in 

 general). Ohshahch-hano'h. — Hodge in Am. An- 

 throp., IX, 352, 1S96 (Laguna form; h&nnch= 

 'people'). Osach-hano..— Ibid. (Sia form). Osach- 

 hanoq*''. — Ibid. (Aeoma form). O'shach^hano. — 

 Ibid. (San Felipe form). O'shach-hanuch. — 

 Ibid. (Cochiti form). O'-sharts. — Stevenson in 

 11th Rep. B. A. E., 19, 1894 (Sia form). Oshatsh.— 

 Bandelier, Delight Makers, 243, 1890 (Cochiti 

 form ) . 



Oshagonondagie. See Onondakai. 



Oshkosh ('his hoof, or 'his nail'; cf. 

 OslikusJd). Head-chief of theMenominee 

 in the first half of the 19th century; born 

 1795, died Aug. 31, 1850. He was of the 

 Owasse gens, and grandson of Chakau- 

 chokama, called "The Old King," long 

 head-chief of the tribe. Oshkosh became 

 a warrior when 17 years of age, being one 

 of the hundred of his tribesmen under 



Tomah who joined Col. Robert Dickson 

 of the British army and participated in 

 the capture of Ft Mackinaw, Mich., from 

 the Americans in July, 1812. He was 

 with the party who in 1813 made an un- 

 successful attack on Ft Sandusky, Ohio, 

 then in charge of Maj. Geo. Croghan. It 

 was at the treaty of Butte des Morts, 

 Mich. Ter. (now Wisconsin), Aug. 11, 

 1827, that he was first officially recog- 

 nized as chief of the Menominee, when, 

 in fact, he was named as chief by 

 Casa and McKenney, the United States 

 commissioners, in order that he might 

 representhis tribe. Oshkosh is described 

 as having been of medium size, possess- 

 ing good sense, ability, and bravery, but 

 a slave to strong drink, which led him, 

 at least in one instance, deliberately to 

 murder, without provocation or excuse, 

 an inoffensive Indian. His name is also 

 written Oiscoss, Oskoshe, and Oskashe. 

 His portrait, painted by Samuel M. 

 Brookes, is in possession of the State His- 

 torical Society of Wisconsin. See Hoff- 

 man in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 1896. (c.T. ) 



Oshkushi ( Uskashd). The animate form 

 of an inanimate word referring to 'hoof,' 

 'claw,' 'nail'; applied to a member of 

 the social divisions of the Sauk, Foxes, 

 and Kickapoo. The division is irrespec- 

 tive of clan and is the cause of intense 

 rivalry in sport. Their ceremonial color 

 is black. (w. j. ) 



Oshonawan ( 'musty town' ) . An ancient 

 Zuni settlement, now in ruins, situated 

 E. of Ojo Caliente, N. Mex. (f. ii. c. ) 

 0-sho-na. — Fewkes in Jour. Am. Eth.and Arch., i, 

 101, 1891. 



Oshtenulilawan ( Osh/-ie-nu' -Ma-wan, 

 'dwelling place of the rock or cave shelter 

 surrounded'). A companion ruin to 

 Illauhla, which is situated 10 m. n. n. e. 

 of Zuni, N. Mex. (f. h. c. ) 



Osiquevede. Mentioned by Fontaneda, 

 about 1575, in connection with Mogoso, 

 Tocobaga, Carlos (Calusa, ) Ais, and Son- 

 sobe, as a village or tribe of Florida below 

 (s. from) Aj^alachee, Fla. (j. m. ) 



Osiguevede. — Fontaneda in Ternaux-Compans, 

 Voy., XX, 40, 1841. Osiquevede. — Fontaneda Mem- 

 oir, Smith trans., 27, 1854. 



Oskakumukchocliikam ( Os Kd'kumHk 

 Tcnti'ikihn, 'arrow-bush standing'). A 

 former Pima village in s. Arizona. — Rus- 

 sell, Pima MS., B. A. E.,l(>, 1902. 



Oskawaserenhon ('dead branches have 

 fallen'). A traditional Iroquois town of 

 the Wolf clan; so enumerated in the list 

 of towns in the Chant of Welcome of the 

 Condolence Council of the I^eague of the 

 Iroquois. Nothing definite is known as 

 to its situation or to what tribe it be- 

 longed. See Hale, Iroq. Book of Rites, 



1883. (.1. N. B. H.) 



Oskelagna {yagena=^' land'). Recorded 

 on the West Florida map {ca. 1775) as one 

 of the former Choctaw "Sixtowns," situ- 

 ated probably in Jasper co., Miss. It is 



