Conocotocko of
Chota (, "Standing Turkey"), known in
English as Old Hop, was a
Cherokee
The Cherokee (; , or ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their homelands, in towns along river valleys of what is now southwestern ...
elder, serving as the
First Beloved Man
Principal Chief is today the title of the chief executives of the Cherokee Nation, of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, the three federally recognized tribes of Cherokee. In the eighteenth ...
of the Cherokee from 1753 until his death in 1760. Settlers of European ancestry referred to him as Old Hop.
Old Hop was the uncle of
Attakullakulla
Attakullakulla ( Cherokee”Tsalagi”, (ᎠᏔᎫᎧᎷ) ''Atagukalu'' and often called Little Carpenter by the English) (c. 1715 – c. 1777) was an influential Cherokee leader and the tribe's First Beloved Man, serving from 1761 to ...
, better known as Little Carpenter.
Anthropologist and Native American historian Fred Gearing described Old Hop's career:
See also
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Transylvania (colony)
The Transylvania Colony, also referred to as the Transylvania Purchase or the Henderson Purchase, was a short-lived, extra-legal colony founded in early 1775 by North Carolina land speculator Richard Henderson, who formed and controlled the Tra ...
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Attakullakulla
Attakullakulla ( Cherokee”Tsalagi”, (ᎠᏔᎫᎧᎷ) ''Atagukalu'' and often called Little Carpenter by the English) (c. 1715 – c. 1777) was an influential Cherokee leader and the tribe's First Beloved Man, serving from 1761 to ...
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1760 deaths
18th-century Cherokee people
Native American leaders
People from pre-statehood Tennessee
Year of birth unknown
People from Chota (Cherokee town)
Native American people from Tennessee
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