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The Oconee requested missionaries
Source: Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors #121
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THE OCONEE In addition to two groups of Muskhogean people bearing this name4 it should be noticed that it was popularly applied by the whites to a Cherokee town, properly called Ukwu'nu (or Ukwu'nl),5 but the similarity may be merely a coincidence. Of the two Creek groups mentioned one seems to be associated exclusively with the Florida tribes, while the second, when we first hear of it, was on the Georgia river which still bears its name. The first reference to either appears to be in a report of the Timucua missionary, Pareja, dated 1602. He mentions the "Ocony, " three days' journey from San Pedro, among a number of tribes among which there were Christians or which desired missionaries.8 (Swanton)
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