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living west of the river, but Du Pratz is the only writer to locate them 

 definitely, on two little lakes "to the west of and above Point© 

 Coupee." What afterward became of the tribe we do not know, but 

 they probably united with the Houma or some other Choctaw-speak- 

 ing Indians in the vicinity. 



Ohelousa population. — Unless we except the sixteenth century 

 notes, this tribe is always represented as small, but no figures are 

 given. My own estimate of the population, together with that of the 

 Washa and Chawasha, for the year 1650 is 700. 



OKMULGEE 



A branch of the Hitchiti which settled at the great bend of the 

 Chattahoochee near the Chiaha and Osochi, probably after the Yama- 

 see uprising. Hawkins traces their origin to the old Hitchiti town 

 site at Macon. About 1822 they are placed east of Flint River and 

 they retained their independence after the removal to Oklahoma, 

 when they reestablished their Square Ground in the northeastern cor- 

 ner of the Creek territory, but gave it up early. Men belonging to 

 this town, such as the Perrymans and Pleasant Porter, played a great 

 part in the history of the Creek Nation after that date. 



Okrmdgee popvlation. — In 1750 they are credited with more than 

 20 warriors, and the census of 1760 allows them 30. The census of 

 1761 gives this town, Chiaha, and Osochi together 120 hunters, and 

 Young, quoted by Morse, estimates a total population for the Okmul- 

 gee alone of 220. They may have constituted one of the two Osochi 

 towns included in the census of 1832, which had together a population 

 of 539. 



ONATHEAQUA 



This name is given by Laudonniere and Le Moyne to one of the 

 two principal Timucua tribes bordering upon the Apalachee in 

 1564-65. For lack of any suitable single term for the group, it has 

 been adopted as a name for the Timucuans later gathered into the 

 Missions of Santa Cruz de Tarihica, San Juan de Guacara, Santa 

 Catalina, and Ajoica, which agree in general with the location of the 

 Onatheaqua as shown on Le Moyne's map. Ajoica was probably a 

 visita of Santa Catalina. Utina may also have settled in them. 



Onatheaqua population. — The missions of Tarihica, Guacara, and 

 Santa Catalina are given a total population of 230 in 1675, but may 

 have included Indians of other tribes. 



OPELOUSA 



Our earliest mention of this tribe, which seems to be in a report 

 written by Bienville about 1725, places them in the Opelousas dis- 



