Osage

[David Costa]

Well. *I* don't consider it a disaster that we have Algonquians in the Ohio
River Valley. :-)

The Dhegihans probably just wanted out to get away from the alligators.

Dave


> we have an influx of Algonquians from the north into the Ohio Valley. The
> Dhegihans and Chiweres in this region are defeated, and many are forced to
> flee for their lives, down the Ohio River and across the Mississippi.  The
> crossing is a confused mess, and the Dhegihan refugees break into two groups
> here, one moving south to become the Quapaws, and the other wandering
> northwest to become the Omahas.  The immigrant Algonquians know the Ohio as
> the River of the Dhegihans, this specific historic event is remembered by the
> Omaha in a much attenuated and garbled form for hundreds of years after the
> disaster,