Opessa Straight Tail

A member of the Turtle Clan. 1677 - moved with band from mid-Ohio valley to Indiana-Illinois-Miami & Illinois River valleys

 1689 - moved with band from Illinois-Indiana to Tennessee-North Carolina-Kentucky Virginia corner
 by 1693 - living in Cecil County, Maryland
 1693 - a Pekowi Chief under his father in Cecil County, Maryland
 1697 - moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with band and succeeded Straight Tail as Pekowi Chief in Pequea, Pennsylvania
 1701 - signed Treaty with William Penn
 1706 - Council Philadelphia
 1707 - Coference at Coestoga, Pennsylvania with John French and Henry Worley
 1711 - resigned as Pekowi Chief to move to Sassoonan's Delaware village - Shamokin, Pennsylvania
 1715 - Conference Philadelphia with Sassoonan
 1722 - moved to Old Town, Maryland
 1723 - replaced brother Cakondawanna as Pekowi Chief
 by 1734 - moved to Alabama with band
 by 1738 - returned to wester Maryland/southeast Pennsylvania
 August 1749 - Council Philadelphia
 1750 - moved to Ohio
 1752 - succeeded Pheasant-Kakawatchekee as Head Pekowi Chief on the Ohio River
 May 1756 - Council Tioga Point
 August 1760 - Council Fort Pitt