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Conocotocko I

Conocotocko I

Cherokee leader

Conocotocko of Chota[lower-alpha 1] /ˌkʌnəkəˈtoʊkoʊ/ (Cherokee: ᎬᎾᎦᏙᎦ, romanized: Gvnagadoga, "Standing Turkey"),[2] known in English as Old Hop,[lower-alpha 2] was a Cherokee elder, serving as the First Beloved Man of the Cherokee from 1753 until his death in 1760. Settlers of European ancestry referred to him as Old Hop.[3]

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Old Hop was the uncle of Attakullakulla, better known as Little Carpenter.

Anthropologist and Native American historian Fred Gearing described Old Hop's career:

When Cherokees had differences among themselves, Old Hop had a great capacity to bring them together. Typically, he avoided making decisions himself... He was extremely cool-headed and patient with the more precipitate of the Cherokees around him. In short, Old Hop was the near-perfect embodiment of the Cherokee ideas about proper leadership behavior, that is, unusually circumspect.[4]

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Notes

  1. Conocotocko and his nephew Conocotocko II bore the same name. Conley's Cherokee Encyclopedia says the name "has suffered perhaps the worst indignities of any Cherokee name of this period" due to its many and sometimes aberrant spellings.[1] Spelling variations include Canackte, Canacaught, Canacackte, Canacockte, Caneecatee, Cannacaughte, Conarcortuker, Concauchto, Connagatucheo, Connecocartee, Connecorte, Connecortee, Connecote, Connetarke, Connocotte, Connocte, Conocortee, Conocotocho, Conogotocke, Conocotocko, Conogotocho, Conogotocka, Conogotocke, Conogotocko, Conogtoco, Cunigatogae, Cunnacatoque, Cunnicatoque, Guhna-gadoga, Kanagagot, Kanagagota, Kanagataucko, Kanagatoga, Kana-gatoga, Kanagatucko, Kanetekoka, and Kunagadoga.
  2. Also recorded as "Old Hopp", "Old Hopper", or "Old Hap".

Citations

  1. [1]
    Conley 2007, p. 108.
  2. [2]
    Timberlake 1948, p. 39.
  3. [3]
    Brown 1938, p. 46.
  4. [4]
    Gearing 1962, p. 65.

Bibliography

  • Brown, John P. (1938). Old Frontiers: The Story of the Cherokee Indians from Earliest Times to the Date of Their Removal to the West, 1838. Kingsport: Southern Publishers.
  • Conley, Robert J. (2007). "Guhna-gadoga". A Cherokee Encyclopedia. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826339515.
  • Gearing, Fred (1962). Priests and Warriors: Social Structures for Cherokee Politics in the 18th Century. American Anthropological Association Memoir. Vol. 93. American Anthropological Association.
  • Timberlake, Henry (1948). Samuel Williams (ed.). Memoirs, 1756-1765. Marietta, Georgia: Continental Book Co.
Preceded by First Beloved Man
1753–1760		 Succeeded by



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