Note 110 — AN ACCOUNT OF THE KATAHBA, CHEERAKE, MUSKOHGE, CHOKTAH, AND CHIKKASAH NATIONS:

The name as given by Gallatin (Archaeologia Americana, II, 90) is, properly, Tsalakies. Mooney goes more into detail: “In the Lower dialect, with which the English settlers first became familiar, the form is Tsa-ragi. In the other dialects the form is Tsa-lagi.” Myths, 182; with Gatschet in accord, Migration Legend, 24. De Soto chroniclers wrote it: Chalaque. The present standard form, Cherokee, dates back at least to 1708. Mooney says (Myths, 15) that the name by which the Cherokees call themselves is Yunwiya, signifying “real or principal people”; and that on ceremonial occasions they frequently speak of themselves as the Kituhwagi (or Cuttawa). The Tennessee River was in very early times called the Cussate (Moll Map, 1715).