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Cherokee Towns
The following
were Cherokee settlements:
- Aguaquiri (?)
- Amahyaski
- Arnakalali
- Amohi
- Anisgayayi
- Anuyi
- Aguohee
- Aracuchi
- Atsiniyi
- Aumuchee
- Ayaliliyi
- Big-Island
- Briertown
- Broomtown
- Brown's Village
- Buffalo Fish
- Canuga
- Catatoga
- Chagee
- Chattanooga
- Chatuga
- Cheesoheha
- Chewase
- Chicherohe
- Chickamauga
- Chilhowee
- Couisca
- Conontoroy
- Conoross
- Coowheescoowee (district)
- Cotocanahut
- Cowee
- Coweeshee
- Coyatee
- Crayfish Town
- Creek Path
- Crowmocker
- Crow Town
- Cuclon
- Cusawatee
- Dulastunyi
- Dustayalunyi
- Echota
- Ecochee
- Elakulsi
- Ellijay
- Estatoee
- Etowah
- Euforsee
- Fightingtown
- Frogtown
- Guasuli
- Gulaniyi
- Gusti
- Gwalgahi
- Half way Town
- Hemptown
- Hickory Log
- High Tower Forks
- Hiwassee
- Ikatikunahita
- Itseyi
- Ivy
Log
- Johnstown
- Jore
- Kalanunyi
- Kanastunyi
- Kansaki
- Kanutaluhi
- Kawanuyi
- Keowee
- Kituhwa
- Kuhlahi
- Kulahiyi
- Kulsetsiyi
- Leatherwood
- Long Island
- Lookout Mountain
- Naguchee
- Nanatlugunyi
- Nantahala
- Natuhli
- Nayuhi
- Nickajack
- Niowe
- Noewe
- Nowe
- Nucassee
- Nununyi
- Ocoee
- Oconaluftee
- Oconee
- Olagatano
- Ooltewah
- Oothcaloga
- Paint Town
- Pine Log
- Quacoshatchee
- Qualatchee
- Qualla
- Quanusee
- Quinahaqui
- Rabbit
Trap
- Red Bank
- Red Clay
- Running Water
A former Cherokee town on the south east bank of
Tennessee River, below Chattanooga, near the
northwest. Georgia line, and 4
m. above Nickajack. It was settled in 1782 by Cherokee who
espoused the British cause in
the Revolutionary war, and was
known as one of the Chickamauga
towns. It was destroyed in the
fall of 1794. See Royce in 5th
Rep. B. A. E., map, 1887; Mooney
in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 54, 78,
1900.
- Saguahi
- Sanderstown
A former Cherokee settlement in N. E. Alabama,
probably taking its name from some prominent
mixed-blood.
- Selikwayi (Selikwā‛yĭ)
A Cherokee settlement, about the time of the removal
of the tribe to the west in 1839, on Sallacoa Creek,
probably at or near the present Sallacoa, Cherokee
County, Georgia. The name is that of a small green
snake, and of a tall broad-bladed grass bearing a
fancied resemblance to it.
- Sallicoah - Doc. of 1799 quoted by Royce in
5th Rep. B. A. E., 144, 1887.
- Seneca (Iʽsū‛nigū)
A former important Cherokee settlement on Keowee
River, about the mouth of Conneross Creek, in
Oconee, County, South Carolina. Hopwell, the county
seat of General Pickens, where the famous treaty was
made in 1785, was near it, on the east side of the
river. Mooney in 19th Rep. B.A.E., 522, 1900.
- Sennikaw - Royce in
5th Rep. B.A.E., map, 1887.
- Sinica - Bartram Travels, 372, 1792.
- Setsi (Sĕ‛tsĭ)
A traditional Cherokee settlement on the south side of
Valley River, about 3 miles below Valleytown, in
Cherokee County, North Carolina. There is a mound at
this place. Mooney in 19th Rep. B.A.E., 531, 1900.
- Sitiku
A former Cherokee settlement on Little Tennessee River
at the entrance of Citico Creek, in Monroe County,
Tennessee. The name, which can not be translated, is
commonly spelled Citico, but appears also as Sattiquo,
Settico, Settacoo, Sette, Sittiquo, etc.
Mooney in 19th Rep. B.A.E., 531,
1900.
- Settacoo - Timberlake, Memoirs, map 1765.
- Sette - Bartram, Travels, 371, 1792 (identical
?)
- Sittiquo - Doc. of 1755 quoted by Royce in 5th
Rep. B.A.E., 142, 1887.
- Skeinah
- Soquee
- Spike Bucktown
- Spring Place
- Standing Peach Tree
- Stikayi
- Sutali
- Suwanee
- Tagwahi
- Tahlasi
- Takwashnaw
- Talahi
- Talaniyi
- Talking Rock
- Tallulah
- Tamahli
- Tanasqui (?)
- Tasetsi
- Taskigi
- Tausitu
- Tawsee
- Tekanitli
- Tellico
- Tennessee
- Tessuntee
- Tikaleyasuni
- Tikwalitsi
- Tlanusiyi
- Tocax
- Tomassee
- Toquo
- Torsalla
- Toxaway
- Tricentee
- Tsilaluhi
- Tsiskwahi
- Tsistetsiyi
- Tsistuyi
- Tsiyahi
- Tsudinuntiyi
- Tucharechee
- Tuckaseegee
- Tugaloo
- Turkeytown
- Turniptown
- Turtletown
- Tusquittah
- Two Runs
- Ustanali
- Ustisti
- Valleytown
- Wahyahi
- Wasasa
- Watauga
- Willstown
- Yunsawi
Additional Cherokee Indian Resources
Notes About the Book:
Source:
Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge,
1906, Bureau of Ethnology, Government Printing Office.
Online Publication: The manuscript was scanned and
then ocr'd. Minimal editing has been done, and readers can and should expect
some errors in the textual output.
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