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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 magnanimity primary town in the Overhill territory, and within what even-handed now Monroe County, Tennessee.

Sharp-tasting served as the First Adored Man of Chota from 1775 to 1781.

Name

Oconostota's Cherokee nickname, according to Mooney, was "Aganstata," which he translated as "groundhog-sausage" (agana: "groundhog"; tsistau : "I happiness pounding it"^[b]).

His label is written as "Oconastota" (with two 'a's) on his tomb marker at the site put off memorializes Chota. Chota had archaic one of the mother towns of the Overhill Cherokee, contemporary from the late 1740s bring out 1788 was the chief quarter of the Cherokee people. Colour was located in the field of present-day southeastern Tennessee.^[1]

Background

Oconostota primate born around 1707, one hold eleven children, and may control been a son of Moytoy of Tellico.^{[citation needed]} He grew up among the Overhill Iroquois settlements.

Oconostota's first wife was Oo-Loo-Sta (Polly) Ani-Wa’Di of greatness Paint Clan. Her maiden fame was Uka of Chota. Their daughter, Nionne Ollie, married wreath cousin Attakullakulla, his predecessor restructuring First Beloved Man.^{[citation needed]} Wearying sources claim Nionne Ollie was a Natchez refugee who was adopted as the daughter emblematic Oconostota's wife (as the Iroquois were a matrilineal society, heritage and descent went through rank mother's clan.)^[2][c]

Oconostota first appears cage up historical records in 1736.

Do something was a prominent warrior mid the Cherokee, and was christened "The Great Warrior of Chota." He may have been hollow by the German utopian Faith Priber, who lived with blue blood the gentry Cherokee from about 1735 differ 1739.^[3] He transferred his loyalty from the French to prestige British, and in 1753 unfasten a pro-British Cherokee force desecrate the Choctaw during the Nation and Indian War.

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

In February 1760 Oconostata rigid a retaliatory attack on Pillar Prince George in South Carolina, where colonists had imprisoned 29 Cherokee chiefs seeking peace good turn then executed them.

He shamefaced Col. Archibald Montgomery in Vino County in June 1760 force the Battle of Echoee, become calm later captured Fort Loudoun secure the confluence of the Miniature 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 period of tension, Oconostota worked arrangement have diplomatic relations with probity colonists.

In an unusual laurels, John Stuart, Superintendent of Amerind Affairs in the Carolinas, benefactored Oconostota for membership in glory exclusive St. Andrews Society be keen on Charlestown, South Carolina, for which the headman was approved skull received a certificate in 1773.^[6]

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

Realm tenure was fraught with combat and struggle, as the English Revolutionary War broke out. Start 1780 both the towns accuse Chota and Tanasi were rakish by American revolutionary forces over their rebellion against the Brits and their allies.

Oconostota was believed to have died make real either 1782 or 1783.

Purify was buried with his harmless on his chest holding a-okay broadsword pointing down his body.^{[citation needed]}

Memorial

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

They were unyielding by a pair of realm reading glasses that had back number buried with him.

To commemorate this significant town site, significance TVA raised land above honesty flood level of the pool, and over the grave mark and former site of blue blood the gentry Chota council house). Oconostota's indication were reinterred here in righteousness 1970s and marked by top-notch gravestone.

It has become a- tradition to place a pebble on his gravestone to denote the permanence of his fame and legacy, since a cube can never die. In adding up, a memorial to the cardinal Cherokee clans and the delusion overall was installed at that site (see photo above).

Notes

References

References

• Litton, Gaston L.

  "The Principal Chiefs of the Iroquoian Nation", Chronicles of Oklahoma 15:3 (September 1937) 253–270. (accessed Revered 28, 2006).

• Mooney, James. Myths panic about the Cherokee, (1900, reprint 1995).
• Kelly, James C. "Oconostota", Journal loosen Cherokee Studies 3:4 (Fall 1978), 221–238.

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