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Ofo

*Ethnie:*	OFO (MOSOPLEA)
*Language:*	Biloxi-Ofo
*Family:*	Southeastern Siouan
*Stock:*	Siouan
*Phylum:*	Macro-Siouan
*Macro-Culture:*	Eastern Woodlands
Speakers	Extinct

The Ofo were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe which suffered in conflicts with larger tribes. The early French knew them to be in southwestern Ohio before being driven south by the Iroquois during the Beaver Wars. They are most closely related to the Biloxi. They eventually joined the Tunica.

Aboriginal Locations (# of Villages)

Southwestern Ohio (8)

Present Locations

Extinct though some mixed blood descendants may be among Tunica

Year	*History*
	Living in eight villages in southwestern Ohio before being driven away by Iroquois (Beaver Wars)
1673	Marquette found tribe on east side of the Mississippi just south of the mouth of the Ohio
1682	Took refuge among the Taensa on Lake St. Joseph
1690	Living on the Yazoo River near the Tunica
1729	Natchez Uprising, Ofo did not participate but rather removed south to the Red River near the Tunica
1764	Took part in a attack on an English convoy ascending the Mississippi River
1784	In small village on west side of Mississippi above Point Coupee
1915	Last Ofo, Rosa Pierrette, died

Year	Total Population	MS	Source
1700	600		Gravier (10 or 12 cabins)
1700	600	600	NAHDB calculation
1758	100		Gov. De Kerlerec (15 warriors)
1784	80		Swanton (12 warriors)
1800	0		NAHDB calculation
1900	0		NAHDB calculation
1908	1		Swanton
2000	0		NAHDB calculation

Other speakers of the same language:

Biloxi, Pascagoula

Ofo Sites:

Biloxi-Ofo Language http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=BLL

Biloxi-Ofo Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=92395

Last of the Ofos http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0816519595/nativelangu01-20/002-5562397-2756062

Last of the Ofos, Chapter 6 http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/Hobson/writing/Chap6.html

Ofo Language http://www.native-languages.org/ofo.htm