The Oconee River gets its name for the tribe of Creek Indians who lived in this area in the middle of the last millenium. Oconee is a phrase of the Muscogee Indian language, The word "O" means the place or alternatively people of. "Conee" or alternatively "Coni" means skunk. Hence the ubiquitous name familiar to us all in Muscogean is "place of the skunk." And, now you know.
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