Opessa Straight Tail (c. 1664 – c. 1750), also known as Wopatha or Wapatha, was a Pekowi Shawnee Chief. He was the son of Straight Tail Meaurroway Opessa. He is best known for signing, on 23 April 1701, the "Articles of friendship and agreement between William Penn and the Susquehannah, Shawonah, and North Patomack Indians," that designated lands and conditions of coexistence between those tribes and the English settlers.[1]
^Adams, Richard Calmit. A Brief History of the Delaware Indians. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906.
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OpessaStraightTail (c. 1664 – c. 1750), also known as Wopatha or Wapatha, was a Pekowi Shawnee Chief. He was the son of StraightTail Meaurroway Opessa...
StraightTail Meaurroway Opessa (1630–1709), often referred to as Meaurroway, was Chief of the Pekowi, a subdivision of the Shawnee Native American tribe...
Cornstalk, helped compile the dictionary for the Shawnee language OpessaStraightTail (Wapatha, 1664–1750), chief of Pekowi band, signed several peace...
with founding Logstown.: 355–56 : 88 Another early resident was OpessaStraightTail, who moved to Logstown some time before 1750. The town's population...
of StraightTail Meaurroway Opessa (1630-1709). He was a cousin of Peter Chartier (1690-1759), another grandson of StraightTail Meaurroway Opessa. At...
Shawnees into Iroquois territory, but within a few years he and OpessaStraightTail had persuaded the English that the Shawnee presence was of economic...
conference was on 14 June, 1715, when he arrived with the Shawnee chief OpessaStraightTail (his son-in-law) and met with Deputy Governor Charles Gookin. In...
married his first cousin, Blanceneige-Wapakonee Opessa (1695-1737), daughter of OpessaStraightTail and his wife, about 1710. They had three children...
earliest reference to thec town is in 1711, when the Shawnee chief OpessaStraightTail is recorded as marrying Polly, the daughter of Sassoonan. The village...
Delawares. The Shawnees were represented by their king, Ophesaw (OpessaStraightTail).: 66–67 Steelman's name is signed as a witness to the treaty made...
villages in Maryland. It is believed to have been the home of Chief OpessaStraightTail, a Shawnee leader. It was listed on the National Register of Historic...
place of his death are unknown. Peter Chartier Meshemethequater OpessaStraightTail Logstown Kakowatcheky George P. Donehoo, "The Shawnee in Pennsylvania...
Chartier was the grandson of chief StraightTail Meaurroway Opessa. In 1710 he married his cousin, Blanceneige-Wapakonee Opessa and they had three children:...
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