. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] OSAGE ORANaE OSQUAGE 159 an individual reserve granted to Rich- ardville, the Miami chief. Osaga.—Hough, map in Indiana Geol. Rep., 1882 (misprint). Osage town.—Rovce, map in 1st Rep. B. A. E., 1881. Osage village'.—Treaty of 1838 in U. S. Ind. Treat., .i08, Osage orange. The bois d'arc ( Toxylon poniifennti), native in the Osage mts.; from the ethnic term fhage, ajiplied in particular to a people of Siouan stock. The wood was commonl)' used by western tribes for making bows, hence the French name. Cf. Ozark. (a. f. c. ) Osamekin. See Massasoit. Osanalgi
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] OSAGE ORANaE OSQUAGE 159 an individual reserve granted to Rich- ardville, the Miami chief. Osaga.—Hough, map in Indiana Geol. Rep., 1882 (misprint). Osage town.—Rovce, map in 1st Rep. B. A. E., 1881. Osage village'.—Treaty of 1838 in U. S. Ind. Treat., .i08, Osage orange. The bois d'arc ( Toxylon poniifennti), native in the Osage mts.; from the ethnic term fhage, ajiplied in particular to a people of Siouan stock. The wood was commonl)' used by western tribes for making bows, hence the French name. Cf. Ozark. (a. f. c. ) Osamekin. See Massasoit. Osanalgi {Omn-algi, ' otter people'). A Creek clan.—Gatschet, Creek Migr. Leg., I, 155, 1884. Osass {CJ'sasx, 'muskrat'). A sub- phratrv or gens of the Menominee.—Hoff- man in 14th Rep. B. A. E.,42, 1896. Oscalui. A former town of the Cones- toga, probably situated near the mouth of Sugar cr., on the right bank of Susque- hanna r., in Bradford Pa. Ogehage.—Hendrickson's map (1616) in N. Y. Doc". Co). Hist., I, ],s5(;. Oscalui.—Jour. Mil. Ex- ped. Gen. Sullivan, 1779, 124, 1887. Osceola (alsospelledOseola, Asseola, As- seheholar, properly Asi-i/aholo, 'Black- drink halloer,' from asi, the 'black drink' (q. v.), yaholo, the long drawn-out cry sung by the attendant while each man in turn is drinking). A noted Seminole leader to whom the name Powell was sometimes applied from the fact that after the death of his father his mother married a white man of that name. He was born on Tallapoosa r., in the Creek country, aV>out 1803 His paternal grandfather was a Scotchman, and it is ,«aid the Caucasian strain was noticeable in his featuresand complexion. He was not a chief by descent, nor, so far as is known, by formal election, but took his place as leader and acknowledged chieftain by reason of his abilities as a warrior and commander during the mem- orable struggle of his people with the United States in the Seminole war of 1835. Secreting the women, children, and
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