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by the whites, particularly the Shakers 

 of New York state. From the place name 

 Oswego. (a. f. c. ) 



Otacite. See Outaciiy. 



Otaguottouemin. An Algonquian tribe 

 mentioned by Champlain (CEnvres, iv, 

 20, 1870) , who heard of them during his 

 passage up the Ottawa r. in 1615. They 

 dwelt in a sparsely inhabited desert 

 and lived by hunting, and by fishing in 

 rivers, ponds, and lakes. The Jesuit Re- 

 lation of 1640 describes them as dwelling 

 N. of the Kichesipirini. They seldom de- 

 scended to trade with the French. 



Kotakoutouemi.— Jes. Kel. 1640, 34, 1858. Otoko- 

 touemi.— Jes. Rel., ni, index, 1858. 8ta8kot8em- 

 iSek.— Jes. Rel. 1650, 34, 1858. 



Otai. A former Diegueno rancheria 

 near San Diego, s. Cal. — Ortega (1775) 

 quoted bv Bancroft, Hist. Cal., i, 254, 

 1884. 



Otaki ( O'-ta-hi) . A former Maidu vil- 

 lage between Big and Little Chico crs. , 

 in the foothills of Butte co., Cal., a few 

 miles E. of Michopdo. (r. b. d. ) 



0-ta-ki.— Powers in Cont.N. A. Ethnol., in, 282, 

 1877 (the people). O-ta-kum'-ni,— Ibid, (the vil- 

 lage). 



Otakshanabe. A former Choctaw vil- 

 lage of the "Sixtowns" district; proba- 

 bly in Jasper co.. Miss. — West Fla. Map, 

 ca. 1775. 



Otassite. See Outacitij. 



Otat. A former Diegueno settlement, 

 tributary to the mission of San Miguel 

 de la Frontera, on the gulf coast of Lower 

 California, about SO m. s. of San Diego, 

 Cal. (a. s._G.) 



Otates (from Aztec otatU, a species of 

 cane ) . A ruined pueblo of the Opata, near 

 Guachinera, e. Sonora, Mexico, about 

 lat. 80°. 



los otates. — Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 

 617, 1892. 



Otatshia ('crane'). A phratry of the 

 ]\Ienominee; also a subphratry or gens. 

 Ota'tshia wi'dishi'anun. — Hoffman in 14th Rep. B. 



A. E., 41!, 1S<j6. 



Otchek, Otchig. See Pekan. 

 Otekhiatonwan ( ' village in the thick- 

 et' ). A band of the Wahpeton Sioux. 



O-ta-har-ton.— Lewi.s and Clark, Discov., 34, 1806. 

 Oteliatoijwaij. — Riggs, letter to Dorsey,1882. OteKi- 

 atoijwaij.— Dorsev (after Ashley) in 15th Rep. 



B. A. K., 216, 1897. Oteqi-atonwa".— Ibid. 

 Otenashmoo. A former Chumashan vil- 

 lage at "Las Possas," about 2 m. from 

 Santa Barbara mission, Cal. — Tavlor in 

 Cal. Farmer, May 4, 1860. 



Oteroughyanento. See Ohrante. 



Otherday, John {Angpetu-fokecha). A 

 Wahpeton Sioux, son of Zitkaduta, or 

 Red Bird, and nephew of Big Curly, 

 chief of the Wahpeton at Lac qui Parle, 

 Minn.; born at Swan lake, Minn., in 

 1801. It is said that when a young man 

 he was "passionate and revengeful, and 

 withal addicted to intemperance, and he 

 lived to lament that he had slain three or 

 four of hia fellows in his drunken orgies" 



(Sibley). Yet at times he manifested 

 the same devotion to his tribesmen as he 

 afterward showed to the whites, on one 

 occasion, in a battle with the Chippewa 

 at St Croix r. , bearing from the field "One- 

 legged Jim," who had been severely 

 wounded, and, during the same action, 

 saving the life of another Indian called 

 Fresniere's Son. But he early became 

 desirous of following the ways of the 

 white men, adopting their dress, later 

 becoming a devoted member of Dr Wil- 

 liamson's church, and abandoning his 

 intemperate habits. When in 1857 the 

 wily Inkpaduta, "too vile to be even 

 countenanced by the Sioux," fell upon 

 and massacred the settlers at Spirit lake, 

 in the present South Dakota, and carried 

 Miss Aliigail Oiardner and Mrs Noble into 



JOHN OTHERDAY. (soUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL SOCIE 



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captivity, Otherday and Paul iMazaku- 

 temani volunteered to follow the out- 

 law's trail, rescuing Miss Gardner, but 

 arriving too late to save the life of the 

 other captive. At the time of the Sioux 

 outbreak of 1862, Otherday, who had 

 married a white woman, resided on the 

 reservation near Minnesota r., in a com- 

 fortable dwelling built for him by the 

 agent. When he learned that hostilities 

 were imminent, he hastened to the up])er 

 agency and there gathered 62 of the 

 whites, whom he guided in safety through 

 the wilderness to St Paul, then hastened 

 back to the frontier to save other lives 

 and to aid in bringing the murderers to 

 justice. To him and the other Christian 

 Indians who aided in the rescue the 



