Oganstota

Oganstota was a Cherokee man

Disputed/Confused Origins

Often confused with Oconostota, an earlier, prominent chief. There is no connection. Some claim that he was related to Attakullakulla and author Thurman Wilkins (without documentation) also says he may have also been called "Dutsi" or Tarchee. [1]

Biography

Oganstota was a Cherokee man probably born about 1750. HIs wife, whose name is unknown, was from the Deer Clan. They were the parents of The Ridge, and David Oo-wa-ti. [2] The Moravian missionaries also mentioned a daughter, but not by name. [3] According to memories of The Ridge, the family was displaced in 1776 during the Revolutionary War when American militia under Rutherford destroyed the Cherokee towns near Hiwassie [4] and moved to the Sequatchie valley farther down the Tennessee River. The family made a final move to Pine Log (now Georgia) about 1785. Oganstota and his wife are believed to have died there about about 1789. [5]

Sources

↑ Wilkins, Thurman. Cherokee Tragedy. University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. p. 7
↑ Hampton, David K. Cherokee Mixed-Bloods. Arc Press of Cane Hill, Lincoln, Arkansas. 2005. p. 243
↑ McClinton, Rowena, ed. The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 2007. Vol. 1, Dec. 1, 1811, p. 459
↑ Isenbarger, Dennis L. ed. Native Americans in Early North Carolina. Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, N.C. 2013. pp. 242-244.
↑ Wilkins, Tragedy, p. 21
see also
Elhle, John. Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation." Anchor Books, New York. 1988
Major Ridge

Source: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cherokee-213

Source: Library of Congress, Map of the Indian tribes of North America, about 1600 A.D. along the Atlantic, & about 1800 A.D. westwardly (by Albert Gallatin, 1836)

The father of Nung-noh-hut-tar-bee ‘Major Ridge’ Ridge was a Cherokee man named ‘Oganstota’ (not the famous chief Oconostota), mother unknown. The father’s birthdate unknown, probably abt. 1750, died about 1791. References are Starr and David K. hampton’s “Cherokee Mixed-Bloods” p. 243

Major Ridge had only one brother, “Oowatie” anglicized to David Watie. B. Abt. 1775, m. susannah Reese abt. 1798, died ant. 1842, Cherokee Nation, IT. He may have also had a sister name, unknown.

http://www.paulridenour.com/mrcomplt.htm

An Indian boy was born between 1765 and 1771 in the Cherokee village of Hiwassee, Tennessee. His parents died when he was young. He had a younger brother named David Oo-Watie, which means "The Ancient One." Their father's name was Oganotota. Ridge had three older brothers who all died young. Ridge was the first to reach maturity. He had another younger brother who died young and a sister who married and lived close by. No one knows the names of the other brothers or sister but one of the brothers may have been Soodohlee (Sudale