Not the same as his nephew "Standing Turkey" Cunne Shote Ku-na-ga-do-ga or as Oconastota 'Stalking Turkey'

Biography

from Kathryn Forbes:

Known as: Old Hop, Connecorte, Standing Turkey

Kanagatoga/Connecorte, the Cherokee chief called ‘Old Hop’ by whites due to a limp from an early injury, was born in the Chota/Overhill area of the Cherokee Nation about 1690. His birth year is estimated based on the many references to his advanced age in correspondence from the 1750’s. [1]. Little is known about his family. He mentioned two sons and named two nephews in a speech, but his parents, siblings, wife or wives, and the names of his children are unknown. Brown in ‘Old Frontiers’ states that the ‘Standing Turkey’ who led the Cherokee briefly after Old Hop’s death was also a nephew. [2]

Already the peace chief, or Beloved Man, of Chota, following the death of ‘Emperor’ Moytoy in 1741, ‘Old Hop,’ along with Attakullakulla and Oconostota (the Great Warrior of Chota) led the Cherokee until his death. He was known for his wise counsel and diplomacy, travelling among, corresponding with, and often pacifying the Virginians, South Carolinians, French, and his fellow (and frequently more belligerent) Cherokee chiefs. [3] Old Hop, talking to British Captain Demere, gave unusual evidence of patriotism. He said, “I am now old and lie upon a bad bearskin. My life is not more than an inch long, and I know not when a bullet may cut it short. I want my brothers Captains Demere and Stuart to remember that the Great Warrior, Oconostota, and his brother are the only two men in the nation that ought to be thought of after my death. It is true that Willenawah and the Little Carpenter [Attakullakulla] are my nephews, but I do not know how they would behave. If I had not remembered what I owe to a country I love, and had in mind to behave like a father, I would recommend my two sons, but I know them to be incapable, and biased by every lie that comes. I do not know how they will turn out, but I do know the others, for drunk or sober, they always admonish the Indians to love the white people.” [4]

Old Hop died about 1761, shortly before the end of the Cherokee-English war. After his death his nephew, Attakullakulla (Little Carpenter) said to the South Carolina council, “Our Headman, Old Hop, is gone to sleep, and the Standing Turk is come in to his room, but he has little to say, being just come in to the government. The other chiefs will remember how strongly Old Hop recommended to the nation to live in peace and friendship with the white people.” [6]

Sources

1. ↑ Brown, John P., ‘’Old Frontiers’’, Southern Publishers Inc., Kingsport, TN, 1938. p. 46
2. ↑ Old Frontiers p. 115
3. ↑ Various sources: Brown, pages 46, 52-54, 65-67, 74-76 and others
4. ↑ From Old Frontiers, pg 67
5. ↑ South Carolina Council Journal, Sept. 23, 1761, referenced in Brown, p. 115

See Also:

• Conley, Robert J. ‘’The Cherokee Nation: A History.’’ Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008.
• Conley, Robert J. ‘’A Cherokee Encyclopedia.’’ Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007.
• Corkran, David, ‘’The Cherokee Frontier.’’ University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1962 . p.27, 50, 63, 154 and others.
• Hoig, Stanley. ‘’The Cherokees and their Chiefs’’. University of Arkansas Press, Fayettville, 1998. pp. 11-12, 22-26, 35-36 and others
• ‘’Journal of Cherokee Studies,’’ Winter, 1978 “Attakullakulla,” Fall, 1978, “Oconostota”
• Timberlake, Henry. ‘’Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake.’’ Ed. Duane King, Museum of the Cherokee Indian Press, Cherokee, N.C. 2007. p. 8

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Kanagatucko, known in English as Standing Turkey or Old Hop,[1] was a Cherokee elder, serving briefly as the principle Chief of the Cherokee from 1758-1761, when he died. The European settlers knew him as Old Hop because he was lame.[2]

Kanagatucko is often confused with his kinsman Oconostota, who used the title "Stalking Turkey." Old Hop was the uncle of Attacullaculla, who was better known as Little Carpenter.

Anthropologist and Native American historian Fred Gearing described Old Hop's career:

When Cherokees had differences among themselves, Old Hop had a great capacity to bring them together. Typically, he avoided making decisions himself... He was extremely cool-headed and patient with the more precipitate of the Cherokees around him. In short, Old Hop was the near-perfect embodiment of the Cherokee ideas about proper leadership behavior, that is, unusually circumspect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanagatucko

Kana-gatoga "Standing Turkey"

Caneecatee

Old Hop

the Fire King of Chota

Uku of Chota

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• Also known as Standing Turkey, Fireking, and Emperor of the Cherokees
• Born 1688 Chota (now Tennessee); some records indicat Upper Hiwasee, VA, whiere his older siblings were born, or further north in the Ohio valley or further west in Tennessee
• Died 1761 in Chota
• Parents unknown but died in 1694
• Could cipher, read, and write English.
• Member of the Wolf Clan Cherokee
• Principal Chief of the Cherokee 1751-61
• Removed British-appointed (possibly Carpenter-Moytoy or Rainmaker?) leaders and united four of the seven Cherokee clans at Chota in 1751.
• Leader of pro-French faction in French-Indian War (1754-61)
• Sent warriors to Braddock 1755

In the eighteenth century, when the people were organized by clans and towns, they would appoint a leader for negotiations with the Europeans. They called him Uku, or First Beloved Man. The title of "Principal Chief" was created in 1794 when the Cherokee began to formalize a centralized political structure, forming the original Cherokee Nation. from tribal documents online.