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OYATESHICHA OZETTE 



[b. a. e. 



justly were they regarded with awe and 

 fear. In Iroquois, they received the 

 name agotkon, or hofinatkon — i. e. 'they 

 are otknus,' or persons having the magic 

 power of monstrous beings. There were 

 also shamans of both sexes who exerted 

 their magic power under the guidance of 

 their several oyaron to secure and pro- 

 mote the welfare of their cotribesmen by 

 consenting to attempt to correct and undo 

 the wrongs and evils devised and perpe- 

 trated by the other class. In either class 

 the ability to do what was not normal 

 sprang from the same principle, the con- 

 jectured possession of orenda, or magic 

 power. 



By the combined astuteness and po- 

 tency of the oyaron of persons added to 

 that of their own inherent orenda, some 

 highly favored individuals became im- 

 mune to all powers and influences belong- 

 ing to the earth, since they knew all 

 things, saw all things, and could do all 

 things. Such personages or beings were 

 naturally shunned and feared, because of 

 this imputed invulnerability and immu- 

 nity from all causes having their origin 

 on the earth. (.r. n. b. h.) 



OyatesMcha ('bad nation'). A band 

 of the Mdewakanton Sioux. Neill gave 

 their habitat as on Rice cr., Minn., 7 m. 

 above the falls of St Anthony. In 1853 

 their village was on Minnesota r., 7 m. 

 from the agency in INIinnesota. In 1858 

 they removed to Oak Grove, and subse- 

 quently to Nebraska with other San tee 

 Sioux. 



Bad.— Preseott in Schoolcraft, Iiid. Tribes, ii, 171, 

 185'2. Goodroad's band.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 282, 1854. 

 Goodrod's band.— SchookTaft, Ind. Tribes, in, 613, 

 1853 (misprint). 0-ya-tay-shee-ka. — Neill in Minn. 

 Hist. Soc. Coll., I, 263, 1872. Oyate-citca.— Dorsey 

 in lotli Rep. B. A. K., 216, 1897. Oyate sica.- 

 Ibid. Tah-chunk wash taa. — Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, in, 612, 18.53 (correctly, Tachanku washte, 

 'Good road', their chief in 1836). Wa-kpa-a-ton- 

 we-dan.— Neill, Hist. Minn., 144, 1858 ( = ' those 

 who dwell on the creek'). 



Oyateshicha. A band of the Yankton 

 Sioux. 



Oyate-citca. —Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 217, 

 1897. Oyate-sica. — Ibid. 



Oydican. A tribe or subtribe, possibly 

 Coahuiltecan, represented in 1706 and 

 later at San Francisco Solano mission, 

 near the lower Rio Grande. For their 

 affiliation, see Terocndame, a tribe of the 

 same locality with whom they intermar- 

 ried and with whom they were associated 

 at the mission. The Oydican seem to have 

 belonged to what was called the Teroco- 

 dame band (MS. Baptismal Rec, 1706-07, 

 partidas 181, 239, 261, 271, 316). (h. e. b. ) 

 Oydica.— MS. Baptismal Rec, op. cit., partida 261. 



Oyeghseragearat. See Onechsagerat. 



Oyike {Oi/i-kt', 'winter people', from 

 Tewa oyi, 'frost'). One of the two 

 branches into which each well-regulated 

 Tewa village is divided in consequence 

 of certain traditional beliefs regarding the 

 religious organization of that people. 



Oyi-ke.— Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, in, 304, 

 1890. Oyique.— Bandelier in Century Cyclop, of 

 Names, 1894. 



Oypattikla [Ahepat-okla, 'potato-eating 

 people', referring to the native hog- 

 potato). The northeastern of the three 

 divisions into which the Choctaw were 

 distinguished for some time previous to 

 their removal w. of the Mississippi. By 

 Romans the name is mistranslated 'small 

 nation.' For the dividing line between 

 this district and that to the w., see Okla- 

 falaya. For about 9 m. the dividing line 

 between it and the southeastern district 

 was formed by a trail running from Con- 

 cha to Ayanabi, i. e. from the former 

 place to the dividing ridge between the 

 N. E. prong of Chickasawhay and Yanub- 

 bee crs., about 1 m. from Ayanal)i, in 

 Kemper CO., INIiss. "From this point in 

 the trail on the dividing ridge, the line ran 

 southerly on the ridge some 3 m. until it 

 struck the 'divide' between Petickfa and 

 Black ^^'ater. It kept this divide easterly 

 down to the confluence of these two 

 creeks. ' ' From this point to Ponta cr. the 

 line was continued by a trail leading to Coo- 

 sha. "Ponta cr. from the trail-crossing, 

 downward and eastward, constituted the 

 remainder of the line separating the two 

 districts." — Halbert in Pub. Ala. Hist. 

 Soc, Misc. Coll., I, 378-79, 1901. 



AhepatOkla. — Halbert, op. cit. Oy-pat-oo-coo-la. — 

 Pickett, Hist. Ala., l, 137, 1851. Oypat oocooloo.— 

 Romans, Fhi., 74, 1775. 



Oyuchseragarat. See Onechsagerat. 



Oyukhpe ( ' unloaded ' ) . A band of the 

 Oglala Sioux. 



Oiyurpe.— Robinson, letter to Dorsey, 1879 (r 

 = h; trans. ' where they put down their packs'). 

 Onkapas.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 250, 1875. OyuHpe.— 

 Dorsey in 15th Rep. B. A. E., 220, 1897. 

 Oyuqpe. — Ibid. Yokpahs. — Twi.ss in Sen. E.x. 

 Doc. 35, 36th Cong., 1st sess., 7, 1860 (probably 

 identical) . 



Ozanbogus. A tribe formerly living on 

 lower Mississippi r., seen by Tonti in 1688. 

 They were proliablythe Uzutiuhi(q. v.). 

 Ozanbog:us. — Douay in Shea, Discov., 226, 1852. 

 Ozembogus. — McKenney and Hall, Ind. Tribes, 

 III, 81, 1.S54. Zembogu. — Barcia, Ensayo, 261,1723. 



Ozark. A term at one time applied to 

 a local band of Quapaw, from their resi- 

 dence in the Ozark mountain region of 

 Missouri and Arkansas. The spelling 

 Ozark is an American rendering of the 

 French Anx Arcs, intended to designate 

 the early French post among the Arkansa 

 (Quapaw) about the present Arkansas 

 Post, Ark. (.1. M. ) 



Osark tribe.— Ker, Trav., 40, ISlti. Ozark.— Nuttall 

 in Jour. Phil., 61, 1821. 



Ozata women. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy, situated in 1608 on the s. 

 bank of the Potomac in King George co., 

 Va.— Smith (1629), Va., I, map, repr. 1819. 



Ozenic. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy, situated in 1608 on Chicka- 

 hominv r. in New Kent co., Va. 

 Ozenick.— Smith (1629), Va., I, map, repr. 1819. 

 Ozinieke. — Ibid., ll, 91. 



Ozette. A Makah village and reserva- 

 tion 1 m. square at Flattery Rocks, coast 



