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Mosopelea
Total population
No longer a distinct tribe, merged into the Tunica-Biloxi[1]
Regions with significant populations
United States (Ohio, Louisiana)
Languages
Ofo, English, French
Religion
Native tribal religion
Related ethnic groups
Biloxi, Tunica[1]
The Mosopelea, or Ofo (also Ofogoula), were a Siouan-speaking Native American people who historically lived near the upper Ohio River. In reaction to Iroquois Confederacy invasions to take control of hunting grounds in the late 17th century, they moved south to the lower Mississippi River. They finally settled in central Louisiana, where they assimilated with the Tunica and the Siouan-speaking Biloxi. They spoke the Ofo language, generally classified as a Siouan language.[1]
^ abcJohn Reed Swanton, The Indian Tribes of North America, p. 232.
The Mosopelea, or Ofo (also Ofogoula), were a Siouan-speaking Native American people who historically lived near the upper Ohio River. In reaction to...
century. One tribe of the Fort Ancient culture has been identified as the Mosopelea, presumably of southeast Ohio, who spoke an Ohio Valley Siouan language...
USS Mosopelea (ATF-158) was Abnaki-class tugboat during the World War II and Cold War. Her namesake is an Indian tribe which inhabited the area near the...
region. Shawnee, Powhatan, Waco, Tawakoni, Tonkawa, Karankawa, Quapaw, and Mosopelea are usually seen as marginally southeastern and their traditional lands...
and the Iroquois Confederacy Miami, Mascouten Lenape Shawnee and Odawa Mosopelea The last French Fort in Ohio Country, Fort Sandusky, was destroyed in...
represent a dialect continuum with Ohio Valley Siouan languages (Ofo language/Mosopelea, Biloxi language). The Catawban family is a branch of the larger Siouan...
Ofo language was a language spoken by the Ofo people, also called the Mosopelea, in what is now Ohio, along the Ohio River, until about 1673. The tribe...
longer held this land by the 17th century. Robert La Salle listed the Mosopelea among the Ohio Valley peoples defeated by the Iroquois in the early 1670s...
name was also applied to the Ohio River, Mosopeleacipi ("river of the Mosopelea" tribe). Shortened in the Shawnee language to pelewa thiipi, spelewathiipi...
League. The explorer Robert La Salle in the 17th century identified the Mosopelea as among the Ohio Valley peoples defeated by the Iroquois in the early...
(AT-154) USS Cusabo (AT-155) USS Luiseno (AT-156) USS Nipmuc (AT-157) USS Mosopelea (AT-158) USS Paiute (AT-159) USS Papago (AT-160) USS Salinan (AT-161)...
Ancient tribe has been verified by name in the historical record—the Mosopelea, presumably of southeast Ohio. There is also a chance that a Siouan people...
Carolina, that incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 2001. Moneton Mosopelea Occaneechi Saponi Tutelo Before Present Swanton (156), p. 100 Swanton...
tribe inhabited, are named for the Saura. Occaneechi Catawba Moneton Mosopelea Saponi Sewee Tutelo Waccamaw Joara List of sites and peoples visited by...
area (especially along the Tennessee River); the Delaware (Lenape) and Mosopelea (at the mouth of the Cumberland River); the Shawnee (throughout the state)...
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