Reproduced here with permission from the February 1996
PCH&GS Quarterly
The following names were taken from a government document voting record concerning the Treaty of 1835.
Cheater | Thief |
Shadow | Wolf |
Crowing Chicken | Quart-whiskey |
Dog | Young Pup |
Crowmocker | Crazy |
Muskrat | Woman Killer |
Waterbird | Sparrow-hawk |
Dew-in-water | Young Duck |
Going Snake | Freezing |
Shoe | Sleepin-deer |
Waterlooker | Four Killer |
Feather | Pigeon |
Tail-up | Goose |
Big Path | Smoke |
Sign | Blackbird |
Reader | Thick-string |
Poor Bear | Running Wolf |
Rib | Mouse |
Turn-about | Cry Wolf |
Caesar | Path-killer |
Bullfrog | Big Hoe |
Heads of Households among the Cherokee in Polk County Tennessee in 1851.
Ah-lin-nih | Mayfield, Polly |
A-wih | Mikih (Mike) |
Caroline | Ni-oee |
Cheesquah, John | Oo-loo-chih |
Chees-qu-neet (Young Bird) | Qua-kih (Peggy) |
Cho-le-goke-sih (Tobacco Smoke) | Sah-mih (Sam) |
Choo-huh-loo-huh | Sal-kin-nih |
E-see-kih | Sally |
Hilderbrand, Amelia | Sis-sih |
Hilderbrand, Ann | Ste-wih (Stephen) |
Hilderbrand, Eliza | Su-san-nih |
Hilderbrand, Emily | Tah-nih |
Hilderbrand, John | Ta-nee-lih |
Hilderbrand, Martha | Te-to-le-nust(Walkingstick) |
Hilderbrand, Mary | Too-stuh |
Hilderbrand, Michael, Sr. | Wah-la-yah |
Hilderbrand, Micheal, Jr. | Wah-le-yuh |
Jim-mih (Oo-luh-soo-luh) | Wa-loo-kih |
Jin-nih | Wee-lih |
John | Wilson |
Ko-he-na-ih (Granny Bird) | Yoo-choo-howee-yuh (Bear Meat) |
Ko-le-gees-kih (Mayfield, Michael) | xx |
Mayfield, Nancy Elizabeth | xx |