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They are said to have been driven from this country by the Iroquois, 

 and in 1673 Marquette found them on the east bank of the Missis- 

 sippi below the mouth of the Ohio. They were in the same neighbor- 

 hood when La Salle descended the Mississippi in 1682, but when he 

 reached the Taensa villages on Lake St. Joseph on his return, the 

 tribe, or part of it, had sought refuge with the Taensa and had 

 been allowed to settle among them. From Daniel Coxe's map, it 

 would appear that on their way south they had stopped near the 

 Quapaw village of Uzitiuhi on Arkansas River. By 1690, however, 

 they had reached Yazoo River, where they placed themselves near 

 the Yazoo and Tunica tribes and were there until the Natchez upris- 

 ing in November 1729. The Yazoo and Koroa participated in this, 

 but the Ofo refused to do so and went on south to the Tunica near 

 the mouth of Red River, allies of the French, with whom they 

 remained until Fort Rosalie was rebuilt. By 1739 they had settled 

 close to this latter and were there until after 1758. In 1764 they 

 took part in an attack upon an English convoy ascending the Missis- 

 sippi and were then probably about where Hutchins found them in 

 1784, in a small village on the west side of the Mississippi 8 miles 

 above Point Coupee. In course of time, the few survivors joined the 

 Tunica at Marksville, where in 1908 the writer found a single indi- 

 vidual, a woman named Rosa Pierrette (pi. 40, fig. 1) and obtained 

 a short vocabulary of her language. She died about 1915, and the 

 tribe and language died with her. 



Ofo population, — In 1700 Gravier reports that the Ofo occupied 10 

 or 12 cabins. In 1702 Iberville estimated 300 families of Tunica, 

 Yazoo, Ofo, and (perhaps) Koroa, the last named not being actually 

 mentioned. In 1721 Charlevoix says the Ofo, Yazoo, and Koroa to- 

 gether had not more than 200 men fit to bear arms. In 1722 La Harpe 

 gives a total population of about 250 for the same three tribes. Du 

 Pratz, about the same period, estimates the number of Ofo cabins at 

 "about 60." In 1758 Governor De Kerlerec reports 15 warriors and in 

 1784 there were said to be "a dozen." (See Tunica.) 



OKCHAI 



The earliest known location of this Muskogee town and tribe was 

 on the west side of Coosa River some miles above its junction with the 

 Tallapoosa. By 1738 a part had moved to a branch of Kowaliga 

 Creek, an affluent of the Tallapoosa, where their principal settlement 

 seems to have been located until the removal to Oklahoma, though a 

 part remained near their former home for a considerable period. 

 There is a town known as Okchaiutci, or Little Okchai, formed of 

 Alabama Indians who had formerly lived near the Okchai proper. 

 The Okchai are often called Fish Pond Indians, and as early as 1791 



