Conocotocko I
Kanagatoga | |
|---|---|
| Died | 1760 |
| Nationality | Cherokee |
| Other names | Old Hop, Standing Turkey |
| Title | First Beloved Man |
| Predecessor | Amouskositte |
| Successor | Standing Turkey |
Connecorte or Kanagatucko, known in English as Old Hop, (the Cherokee translates as Stalking Turkey),[1] was a Cherokee elder, serving briefly 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.[2]
Old Hop was the uncle of Attakullakulla, who was 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.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Henry Timberlake, Samuel Williams (ed.), Memoirs, 1756-1765 (Marietta, Georgia: Continental Book Co., 1948), 39.
- ^ Brown, John. Old Frontiers, 46.
- ^ Gearing, Fred. Priests and Warriors: Social Structures for Cherokee Politics in the 18th Century (The American Anthropological Association, Vol. 64, No. 2, 1962), p. 65
 | This biographical article about an Indigenous person of North America is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |