Owahyah

Owahyah is credited as the author of Birch Bark Legends of Niagara, a short collection of stories published in the 1880s and later preserved by projects such as Project Gutenberg. The book presents legends connected with Niagara and the Iroquois tradition, which is why the name still appears in library and public-domain catalogs today.

Very little reliable biographical information about the person behind the name seems to be readily documented in major reference sources. Because of that, it is safest to treat Owahyah as a sparsely recorded author known primarily through this surviving work rather than through a well-established personal biography.