Chickamauga Cherokee people

Cherokee war chief and leader of the Chickamauga Cherokee

Cherokee leader (d. 1839)

Oconostota (c. 1707–1783) was a Cherokee skiagusta (war chief) of Chota, which was for nearly four decades the primary town in the Overhill territory, and within what is now Monroe County, Tennessee. He served as the First Beloved Man of Chota from 1775 to 1781.