Note 111 — AN ACCOUNT OF THE KATAHBA, CHEERAKE, MUSKOHGE, CHOKTAH, AND CHIKKASAH NATIONS:
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Mooney says seemingly refers to the fact that the tribe occupied a cave country; followed by Hodge, Handbook, I, 245, “cave people.” But Starr, the Cherokee historian, agrees with Adair: A-che (fire) ahgi (he takes). Early History, 7.