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lol I ran across this weird thing when I was looking at the Huge Eagle and Hawk effigies in Ga…..
The Oconee tribe…..has anyone ever wondered why these names sound kinda close? I know this tribe was in with the Creeks some way….but if I remember right there was a group of creeks that spoke a sort of Siouan…
The oconee was not associated with the Siouan dialect creek….not that I’ve read before…but still it is kinda weird to me.
I’m going to copy and paste some stuff on them.
Oconee. Significance unknown.
Connections. The Oconee belonged to the Muskhogean linguistic stock, and the Atcik-hata group. (See Apalachicola.)
Location. Just below the Rock Landing on Oconee River, Ga. (But see also Florida.)
History. Early documents reveal at least two bodies of Indians bearing the name Oconee and probably related. One was on or near the coast of Georgia and seems later to have moved into the Apalachee country and to have become fused with the Apalachee tribe before the end of the seventeenth century. The other was at the point above indicated, on Oconee River. About 1685 they were on Chattahoochee River, whence they moved to the Rock Landing. A more northerly location for at least part of the tribe may be indicated in the name of a Cherokee town, though that may have been derived from a Cherokee word as Mooney supposed. About 1716 they moved to the east bank of the Chattahoochee in Stewart County, Ga., and a few years later part went to the Alachua Plains, in the present Alachua County, Fla., where they became the nucleus of the Seminole Nation and furnished the chief to that people until the end of the Seminole war. Most of them were then taken to Oklahoma, but they had already lost their identity.
Population. The following estimates of effective Oconee men in the Creek Nation are preserved: 1738, 50; 1750, 30; 1760, 50; 1761, 50. In 1675 there were about 200 Indians at the Apalachee Mission of San Francisco de Oconi.
Connection in which they have become noted. The name Oconee is perpetuated in the Oconee River, the town of Oconee, Oconee Mills, and Oconee Siding, all in Georgia, but not necessarily in the name of Oconee County, S. C., which is of Cherokee origin, although there may be some more remote relationship. There is a place of the name in Shelby County, Ill.
Apalachicola. From Hitchiti “Apalachicoli” or Muskogee “Apalachicolo,” signifying apparently “People of the other side,” with reference probably to the Apalachicola River or some nearby stream.
Also called:
Talwa lako or Italwa lako, “big town,” name given by the Muskogee Indians.
Palachicola or Parachukla, contractions of Apalachicola.
Connections. This was one of those tribes of the Muskhogean linguistic stock which spoke the Atsik-hata or Hitchiti language, and which included in addition the Hitchiti, Okmulgee, Oconee, Sawokli, Tamali, Mikasuki, Chiaha, and possibly the Osochi (but see Osochi).
http://www.shelbyvilledailyunion.com/apstorysection/local_story_181195507.html
The name “Oconee” means beautiful Indian maiden or in another Indian language, the meaning is “hard or course water.”
Many years ago a small town in Oconee Township saw it’s demise because of a steep hill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Oconee
Oconee is the Creek Indian word meaning “great waters.”
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