Oconee County, GA Politics

From: psommer <psommer@bellsouth.net> To: 'psommer' <psommer@bellsouth.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:41 AM Subject: please join us Hi, The Oconee County Historical Society is planning another social get together on June 8, 7pm at the William Daniel House.  Catering by Mary ($10 donation).  Please let Lisa Douglas lisadouglas@gmail.com know if you are planning to come so we can plan the amount of food to order.  Come catch up with old friends and historical society activities. Peggy

Members of the Oconee County Historical Society listen to Bob Burton talk about the Battle of the Bulge he was in. Bob Burton Oconee means "smells like a skunk" in Cherokee. However according to Wikipedia:  "Oconee" is the Anglicized form of the Itsati ( Hitchiti -Creek) word  Okvni , which means "born from water" or "living on water." [ citation needed ]  This branch of the Creeks is better known for the name given them by the chroniclers of the  Hernando de Soto  Expedition in 1540,  Ocute  - which is the Spanish version of the Itsati word  Okvte . Okvte means "Water People." According to Oconee-Creek tradition, their original homeland was in the Okefenokee Swamp of southeastern Georgia. In fact, a branch of the Oconee still lived in this vast expanse of water during the 1600s, when it was under the domain of Spain. The Oconee Creeks also once occupied towns in present-day northeastern Georgia, northwestern South Carolina and i...