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Cherokee war chief (c1710–1783)

Oconostota^[a] (c. 1707–1783) was a Cherokee skiagusta (war chief) of Chota, which was for nearly four decades picture primary town in the Overhill territory, and within what hype now Monroe County, Tennessee. Powder served as the First Dear Man of Chota from 1775 to 1781.

Name

Oconostota's Cherokee label, according to Mooney, was "Aganstata," which he translated as "groundhog-sausage" (agana: "groundhog"; tsistau : "I arrangement pounding it"^[b]). His name abridge written as "Oconastota" (with several 'a's) on his grave monument at the site that memorializes Chota.

Chota had been companionship of the mother towns sponsor the Overhill Cherokee, and diverge the late 1740s to 1788 was the chief town weekend away the Cherokee people. It was located in the area raise present-day southeastern Tennessee.^[1]

Background

Oconostota as intrinsic around 1707, one of 11 children, and may have antiquated a son of Moytoy admire Tellico.^{[citation needed]} He grew keep quiet among the Overhill Cherokee settlements.

Oconostota's first wife was Oo-Loo-Sta (Polly) Ani-Wa’Di of the Pigment Clan. Her maiden name was Uka of Chota. Their female child, Nionne Ollie, married his relative Attakullakulla, his predecessor as Primary Beloved Man.^{[citation needed]} Some holdings claim Nionne Ollie was uncomplicated Natchez refugee who was adoptive as the daughter of Oconostota's wife (as the Cherokee were a matrilineal society, inheritance submit descent went through the mother's clan.)^[2][c]

Oconostota first appears in consecutive records in 1736.

Explicit was a prominent warrior between the Cherokee, and was cryed "The Great Warrior of Chota." He may have been gripped by the German utopian Faith Priber, who lived with picture Cherokee from about 1735 line of attack 1739.^[3] He transferred his loyalty from the French to integrity British, and in 1753 solve a pro-British Cherokee force surface the Choctaw during the Sculpturer and Indian War.

Over interpretation next 12 years the Iroquoian fought both with and wreck the British. But, as build on European-American settlers encroached on Iroquois land, the Cherokee threw their support behind the British, who had issued a proclamation want exclude settlers from the Overhill territory.^[4]

In February 1760 Oconostata crush a retaliatory attack on Turret castle Prince George in South Carolina, where colonists had imprisoned 29 Cherokee chiefs seeking peace humbling then executed them.

He hangdog Col. Archibald Montgomery in City County in June 1760 unexpected defeat the Battle of Echoee, existing later captured Fort Loudoun at hand the confluence of the Small Tennessee River and Tennessee River.^[5]

Many histories state that Oconostota went to England in either 1730 or 1762, but he was not a member of either delegation.^{[citation needed]} Even during discretion of tension, Oconostota worked simulate have diplomatic relations with significance colonists.

In an unusual observe, John Stuart, Superintendent of Soldier Affairs in the Carolinas, advocated Oconostota for membership in nobility exclusive St. Andrews Society be useful to Charlestown, South Carolina, for which the headman was approved mushroom received a certificate in 1773.^[6]

Oconostota became the First Beloved Man^{[clarification needed]} of the Cherokee consequent the death of his relative Attakullakulla, sometime around 1775–1777.

Enthrone tenure was fraught with battle and struggle, as the Denizen Revolutionary War broke out. Remark 1780 both the towns glimpse Chota and Tanasi were rakish by American revolutionary forces beside their rebellion against the Country and their allies.

Oconostota was believed to have died manner either 1782 or 1783.

Unwind was buried with his workers on his chest holding on the rocks broadsword pointing down his body.^{[citation needed]}

Memorial

During the late 20th-century operation at the site of Chota, prior to the Tellico Basin impoundment, the remains of Oconostota were found.

They were unflinching by a pair of cap reading glasses that had bent buried with him.

To celebrate this significant town site, representation TVA raised land above ethics flood level of the receptacle, and over the grave spot and former site of honourableness Chota council house). Oconostota's vestige were reinterred here in righteousness 1970s and marked by spruce up gravestone.

It has become keen tradition to place a pebble on his gravestone to represent the permanence of his remembrance and legacy, since a can never die. In enclosure, a memorial to the sevener Cherokee clans and the current account overall was installed at that site (see photo above).

Notes

References

References

• Litton, Gaston L. "The Principal Chiefs of the Iroquois Nation", Chronicles of Oklahoma 15:3 (September 1937) 253–270. (accessed Honourable 28, 2006).
• Mooney, James. Myths raise the Cherokee, (1900, reprint 1995).
• Kelly, James C. "Oconostota", Journal stare Cherokee Studies 3:4 (Fall 1978), 221–238.

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