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color:inherit;">Total population</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">No longer a distinct tribe,<br />merged into the <a href="/wiki/Tunica-Biloxi" title="Tunica-Biloxi">Tunica-Biloxi</a><sup id="cite_ref-swan232_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swan232-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-conclusions_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-conclusions-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Regions with significant populations</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> (formerly <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Languages</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Ofo_language" title="Ofo language">Ofo</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Native_American_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American religion">Native tribal religion</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de; color:inherit;">Related ethnic groups</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Biloxi_people" title="Biloxi people">Biloxi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tunica_people" title="Tunica people">Tunica</a><sup id="cite_ref-swan232_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swan232-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Mosopelea</b> or <b>Ofo</b> (also <b>Ofogoula</b>) were a <a href="/wiki/Siouan_languages" title="Siouan languages">Siouan</a>-speaking <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Native Americans of the United States">Native American</a> people who historically lived near the upper <a href="/wiki/Ohio_River" title="Ohio River">Ohio River</a>. In reaction to <a href="/wiki/Iroquois_Confederacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Iroquois Confederacy">Iroquois Confederacy</a> invasions to take control of hunting grounds in the late 17th century, they moved south to the lower <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a>. They finally settled in central Louisiana, where they assimilated with the <a href="/wiki/Tunica_people" title="Tunica people">Tunica</a> and the Siouan-speaking <a href="/wiki/Biloxi_people" title="Biloxi people">Biloxi</a>. They spoke the <a href="/wiki/Ofo_language" title="Ofo language">Ofo language</a>, generally classified as a <a href="/wiki/Siouan_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Siouan language">Siouan language</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-swan232_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swan232-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mosopelea&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="17th_century">17th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mosopelea&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 17th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the 1684 French map of <a href="/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Louis_Franquelin" title="Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin">Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin</a>, the Mosopelea had eight villages just north of the Ohio River, between the <a href="/wiki/Muskingum_River" title="Muskingum River">Muskingum</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scioto_River" title="Scioto River">Scioto</a> rivers, within the present-day state of Ohio, corresponding with the heart of <a href="/wiki/Ohio_Hopewell" class="mw-redirect" title="Ohio Hopewell">Ohio Hopewell</a> country.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (The <a href="/wiki/Miami-Illinois_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Miami-Illinois language">Miami-Illinois</a> name <span title="Miami-Illinois-language text"><i lang="mia">Mosopeleacipi</i></span> ("river of the Mosopelea") referred to what is now called the Ohio River. Shortened in the <a href="/wiki/Shawnee_language" title="Shawnee language">Shawnee language</a>, the name evolved to "Pelisipi" or "Pellissippi" and was also later applied to what is now called the <a href="/wiki/Clinch_River" title="Clinch River">Clinch River</a> in <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>.)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USA_S%C3%BCdosten-Ofo.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/USA_S%C3%BCdosten-Ofo.png/220px-USA_S%C3%BCdosten-Ofo.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/USA_S%C3%BCdosten-Ofo.png/330px-USA_S%C3%BCdosten-Ofo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/USA_S%C3%BCdosten-Ofo.png/440px-USA_S%C3%BCdosten-Ofo.png 2x" data-file-width="765" data-file-height="712" /></a><figcaption>Tribal territory of Ofo during the 17th century highlighted</figcaption></figure> <p>Franquelin noted the villages on the map as "destroyed". <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9-Robert_Cavelier,_Sieur_de_La_Salle" title="René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle">La Salle</a> recorded that the Mosopelea were among the tribes conquered by the <a href="/wiki/Seneca_people" title="Seneca people">Seneca</a> and other nations of the <a href="/wiki/Iroquois_Confederacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Iroquois Confederacy">Iroquois Confederacy</a> in the early 1670s, during the later <a href="/wiki/Beaver_Wars" title="Beaver Wars">Beaver Wars</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1673, <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Marquette" title="Jacques Marquette">Marquette</a>, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Jolliet" title="Louis Jolliet">Joliet</a>, and other early French explorers found that the Mosopelea likely abandoned Ohio and moved south along the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-swan232_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swan232-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They briefly lived with the <a href="/wiki/Quapaw" title="Quapaw">Quapaw</a> before joining the <a href="/wiki/Tunica_people" title="Tunica people">Tunica</a>, who were allied with the French colonists.<sup id="cite_ref-swan232_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-swan232-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1699, the Ofo/Mosopelea were referred by French Jesuits as the <i>Houspé</i>, and were encountered living among the Tunica.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_century">18th century</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mosopelea&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Around 1700, French travelers reported Ofo villages in Mississippi on the <a href="/wiki/Yazoo_River" title="Yazoo River">Yazoo River</a>. Refusing to join the Natchez in their war against the French in the 1710s and 1720s, the Ofo moved further south. They and other remnant peoples became assimilated into the Biloxi and Tunica. Their language became extinct. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Descendants">Descendants</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mosopelea&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Descendants"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/U.S._Department_of_the_Interior" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Department of the Interior">U.S. Department of the Interior</a> determined that: "The contemporary <a href="/wiki/Tunica-Biloxi_Indian_Tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe">Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe</a> is the successor of the historical <a href="/wiki/Tunica_people" title="Tunica people">Tunica</a>, Ofo, and <a href="/wiki/Avoyel_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Avoyel tribe">Avoyel tribes</a>, and part of the <a href="/wiki/Biloxi_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Biloxi tribe">Biloxi tribe</a>. These have a documented existence back to 1698. The component tribes were allied in the 18th century and became amalgamated into one in the 19th century through common interests and outside pressures from non-Indian cultures."<sup id="cite_ref-conclusions_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-conclusions-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe has a reservation in <a href="/wiki/Avoyelles_Parish,_Louisiana" title="Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana">Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mosopelea&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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href="#cite_ref-swan232_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-swan232_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-swan232_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-swan232_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">John Reed Swanton, <i>The Indian Tribes of North America,</i> p. 232.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-conclusions-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-conclusions_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-conclusions_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em 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a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bia.gov/sites/default/files/dup/assets/as-ia/ofa/petition/001_tunbil_LA/001_pf.pdf">"General Conclusions"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Recommendation and summary evidence for proposed finding for Federal acknowledgment of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana pursuant to 25 CFR 54</i>. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs. December 4, 1980<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 May</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Recommendation+and+summary+evidence+for+proposed+finding+for+Federal+acknowledgment+of+the+Tunica-Biloxi+Tribe+of+Louisiana+pursuant+to+25+CFR+54&rft.atitle=General+Conclusions&rft.date=1980-12-04&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bia.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fdup%2Fassets%2Fas-ia%2Fofa%2Fpetition%2F001_tunbil_LA%2F001_pf.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMosopelea" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hanna, p. 125.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pstcc.edu/blogs/marketing-comm/?p=6971">"The Winding River Home: Pellissippi State researches the meaning of 'Pellissippi'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>Pellissippi State News</i>. <a href="/wiki/Pellissippi_State_Community_College" title="Pellissippi State Community College">Pellissippi State Community College</a>. June 7, 2017. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180726041013/http://www.pstcc.edu/blogs/marketing-comm/?p=6971#.W1xpkxlm2M8">Archived</a> from the original on July 26, 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 26,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Pellissippi+State+News&rft.atitle=The+Winding+River+Home%3A+Pellissippi+State+researches+the+meaning+of+%27Pellissippi%27&rft.date=2017-06-07&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pstcc.edu%2Fblogs%2Fmarketing-comm%2F%3Fp%3D6971&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMosopelea" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hanna, p. 97.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWaselkovWoodHatley2006" class="citation book cs1">Waselkov, Gregory A.; Wood, Peter H.; Hatley, M. Thomas (2006-01-01). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=o1MgHKSi5NgC&q=delanglez%2520tonti%2520letters%2520%2522houspe%2522&pg=PA499"><i>Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast</i></a>. U of Nebraska Press. p. 499. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0803298617" title="Special:BookSources/0803298617"><bdi>0803298617</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Powhatan%27s+Mantle%3A+Indians+in+the+Colonial+Southeast&rft.pages=499&rft.pub=U+of+Nebraska+Press&rft.date=2006-01-01&rft.isbn=0803298617&rft.aulast=Waselkov&rft.aufirst=Gregory+A.&rft.au=Wood%2C+Peter+H.&rft.au=Hatley%2C+M.+Thomas&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Do1MgHKSi5NgC%26q%3Ddelanglez%252520tonti%252520letters%252520%252522houspe%252522%26pg%3DPA499&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMosopelea" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/midamericahistor21unse#page/228/mode/2up">"Mid-America : an historical review"</a>. <i>archive.org</i>. p. 228<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2015-07-16</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=archive.org&rft.atitle=Mid-America+%3A+an+historical+review.&rft.pages=228&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fmidamericahistor21unse%23page%2F228%2Fmode%2F2up&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMosopelea" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mosopelea&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Hanna, Charles. <i>The Wilderness Trail</i>, Vol 2, pp. 94–105.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFSwanton1952" class="citation book cs1">Swanton, John Reed (1952). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Xpx6WoPz7xIC"><i>The Indian Tribes of North America</i></a>. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 74. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780806317304" title="Special:BookSources/9780806317304"><bdi>9780806317304</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Indian+Tribes+of+North+America&rft.pages=74&rft.pub=Genealogical+Publishing+Com&rft.date=1952&rft.isbn=9780806317304&rft.aulast=Swanton&rft.aufirst=John+Reed&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DXpx6WoPz7xIC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMosopelea" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mosopelea&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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people">Erie people</a> (<a href="/wiki/Iroquois" title="Iroquois">Iroquois</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honniasont" title="Honniasont">Honniasont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huron_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Huron people">Huron</a> (Wyandot)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miami_people" title="Miami people">Miami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mingo" title="Mingo">Mingo</a> (<a href="/wiki/Iroquoian_languages" title="Iroquoian languages">Iroquoian</a> speaking)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mosopelea</a> (<a href="/wiki/Siouan_languages" title="Siouan languages">Siouan</a> speaking)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ojibwe" title="Ojibwe">Ojibwe</a> (<a href="/wiki/Anishinaabe" title="Anishinaabe">Anishinaabe</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Odawa" title="Odawa">Odawa</a> (<a href="/wiki/Anishinaabe" title="Anishinaabe">Anishinaabe</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pekowi" title="Pekowi">Pekowi</a> (Shawnee)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piankeshaw" title="Piankeshaw">Piankeshaw</a> (Miami)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shawnee" title="Shawnee">Shawnee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wyandot_people" title="Wyandot people">Wyandot</a></li> <li><i>See also</i> <a href="/wiki/Western_Confederacy" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Confederacy">Western Confederacy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Indigenous_languages_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous languages of the Americas">Languages</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Algonquian_languages" title="Algonquian languages">Algonquian languages</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Indian_reservation" title="Indian reservation">Former reservations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blanchard%27s_Fork_Reserve,_Ohio" title="Blanchard's Fork Reserve, Ohio">Blanchard's Fork Reserve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moravian_Indian_Grants" title="Moravian Indian Grants">Moravian Indian Grants</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nawash-Kinjoano_Reservation" title="Nawash-Kinjoano Reservation">Nawash-Kinjoano Reservation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Two_Mile_Square_Reservation" title="Two Mile Square Reservation">Two Mile Square Reservation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upper_Sandusky_Reservation" title="Upper Sandusky Reservation">Upper Sandusky Reservation</a></li> <li><i>See also</i> <a href="/wiki/Indian_removals_in_Ohio" title="Indian removals in Ohio">Indian removals in Ohio</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historic figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Jacket" title="Blue Jacket">Blue Jacket</a> (Shawnee)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buckongahelas" title="Buckongahelas">Buckongahelas</a> (Lenape)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cornstalk_(Shawnee_leader)" title="Cornstalk (Shawnee leader)">Cornstalk</a> (Shawnee)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egushawa" title="Egushawa">Egushawa</a> (Odawa)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Brant" title="Joseph Brant">Joseph Brant</a> (Mohawk)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kakowatcheky" title="Kakowatcheky">Kakowatcheky</a> (Shawnee)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Turtle" title="Little Turtle">Little Turtle</a> (Miami)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roundhead_(Wyandot)" title="Roundhead (Wyandot)">Roundhead</a> (Wyandot)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tecumseh" title="Tecumseh">Tecumseh</a> (Shawnee)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenskwatawa" title="Tenskwatawa">Tenskwatawa</a> (Shawnee)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Historic communities</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hell_Town,_Ohio" title="Hell Town, Ohio">Hell Town, Ohio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenape_settlements" title="Lenape settlements">Lenape settlements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lower_Shawneetown" title="Lower Shawneetown">Lower Shawneetown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muskingum_(village)" title="Muskingum (village)">Muskingum (village)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pickawillany" title="Pickawillany">Pickawillany</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Prehistoric cultures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adena_culture" title="Adena culture">Adena</a> (Early Woodland)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Ancient" title="Fort Ancient">Fort Ancient</a> (Late Prehistoric)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glacial_Kame_culture" title="Glacial Kame culture">Glacial 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