There is no information that this Ooloosta ever existed. The narrative attached is a mish-mash of erroneous information. Where is there any record of a Creek woman from 1704 who was half-Shawnee but with a fake Cherokee name and a Cherokee clan? There are almost no records of any individual Cherokee this far back. There would be no record of the ancestry of a person adopted as a Cherokee at this time. And “she” had a wife? The name of Attakullkulla’s wife is unknown. The Ridge was not his grandson. No children of Willenawah are identified in any record. This is all just garbled Internet junk.
Anyone who finds a tree claiming Cherokee ancestry before the Revolutionary War (and really before 1800) should be very suspicious. There are almost no records which even mention Cherokee families from this time, and those that do are most often just the mention of a man as someone’s son or nephew (which could just mean they were in the same clan and of a younger generation). There are a few mixed families where the white father and his children are known, but seldom a wife’s name.
JC Brigid Flynt-Wamble You might be interested in reading the article Kathie kindly shared with Geni, and posted here:
https://www.geni.com/projects/Cherokee-Genealogy-and-History/12
“So, will the real Amatoya Moytoy please stand up?” by Kathryn Forbes, November 2017
attakullkulla is not the Cherokee named for the chief who whent to englind with 6 others look in the Cherokee scroll can't think of name of scoll the name is on, will get back to on danielintheden49@yahoo.com