Oconostota biography for kids
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History's Mornings
| LOST PLACE | FEBRUARY &#; NO. 3 |
by Philip Lee Williams
South Carolina's Keowee Valley (and with it the British Fort Prince George) was flooded in May ; the author's family spent months excavating the site before it went under.
Each July, inom celebrate the day of Custer's massaker at the Little Big Horn. inom celebrate it for the howling joy I feel in his defeat, the last high-water-mark for Native Americans in their kamp against whites' move west. Custer, earlier, had led his troops in what laughably came to be called the Battle of the Washita, when he attacked a sleeping by at dawn in the snow. General George Crook did the same thing in the run-up to the Custer fight. It takes a real man to skott a woman or a child in the pre-dawn cold.
My feelings about Native American history come naturally, for when I was a boy, my father took my brother and me into what was
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Oconastota Cherokee (abt. - abt. )
ChiefOconastota(Oconostota)"Stalking Turkey"Cherokee
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Father of Tuckasee Cherokee
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Do NOT merge with Ostenaco, or Oganstota they are different people.Disputed Origins & Relations
Nothing is known of Oconostota’s early life. His parents are unknown. He was born about in the Overhill area of the Cherokee Nation (estimated from age of about 73 at his death in ).[1]
Little is known of his family; his wife is mentioned in historical records, in he asked a nephew, Savanooka the Raven of Chota, to speak for him,[2] and in he asked to resign as chief and name his son, Tukeesee, in his place.[3]
Tukeesee is h
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Oconostota
Cherokee war chief (c–)
Oconostota[a] (c. –) was a Cherokee skiagusta (war chief) of Chota, which was for nearly four decades the primary town in the Overhill territory, and within what is now Monroe County, Tennessee. He served as the First Beloved Man of Chota from to
Name
[edit]Oconostota's Cherokee name, according to Mooney, was "Aganstata," which he translated as "groundhog-sausage" (agana: "groundhog"; tsistau&#;: "I am pounding it"[b]). His name is written as "Oconastota" (with two 'a's) on his grave marker at the site that memorializes Chota. Chota had been one of the mother towns of the Overhill Cherokee, and from the late s to was the chief town of the Cherokee people. It was located in the area of present-day southeastern Tennessee.[1]
Background
[edit]Oconostota was born around He grew up among the Overhill Cherokee settlements. Oconostota's first wife was Oo-Loo-Sta (Polly) Ani-Wa’Di of the Paint Clan. Her ma