ABOUT THE OSYKA NAME

Osyka is a Choctaw Indian (Native American) word meaning “Soaring Eagle.”

Osyka is the name of a small town in Mississippi located on Highway 51 equally distant from Jackson, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana. Legend has it that “Miss Osyka,” a tribal Princess who died young, is buried at Gardner Springs in Osyka. Her grief stricken father, the Tribe’s Chief, requested that the town’s founding fathers name the town to bear his daughter’s name. They did.