Comments for Chenocetah's Weblog

Comment on Connestee Falls, North Carolina by Susan P. Graben

Susan P. Graben — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:38:14 +0000

I was so pleased to find your site and confirm my feeling about the name SALOLA which I find on your Connestee Falls street name list as meaning “gray squirrel.” I have an ancestor from Shelby, Cleveland Co, NC who was named Salola McClintock Andrews. I have always liked the unusual name and even named one of my cats after my cousin. I think that my relative (1852-1873) went by “Clint” but I always wondered where his dad, Dr. William P. Andrews of Rutherford Co, got the name. His other children also had out of the ordinary names. “Doc” was born in 1823 – do you think there were possibly Cherokees in that area when he was growing up and he learned the meaning of the word then?

Comment on Cherokee Place Names, Part 2 by Steve Soltis

Steve Soltis — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:10:41 +0000

fascinating read … I own cabin and property on turniptown creek and would love to learn how to grow Irish potatoes. If you have any thoughts, I would appreciate it.

Comment on Connestee Falls, North Carolina by Tony Corley

Tony Corley — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:47:34 +0000

Many many thanks for this. I visit with a relative in Connestee most years and have always found the name of the drive where she lives unprouncable. We went up to Cherokee itself last year and asked for the correct Tsali pronunciation of Tlvdatsi at the museum but the lady was unable to help. This at least gives me an idea of how it should be said, although most people there say Tildatsi. Tludahchee is something I can say without that much problem, and it is something that has been puzzling me every since I started coming there in 2001.

Connestee is a wonderful beautiful place, in sunshine, rain or in fog, cool and pleasant always, and very well maintained.

Comment on About by George Murray

George Murray — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:20:11 +0000

John, Thank you.

About 26 years ago I was fortunate enough to be able to take “Poisonous and Medicinal Plants” (and since that year was to be your last I also took your “Environmental Issues” class). I worked my butt off to earn a C – which I was proud of by the way. As a teacher you had no equal in my experiences. Your overt lessons from organic chemistry and plant structures to nuclear power and water quality have faded to one degree or another (I believe much of it is still filed away. Little tidbits like Coprinopsis atramentaria and alcohol), but your coverts have resonated and found a home in me. You somehow ‘force’ me to put out only my best (spelling and memorizing were my bane). I am at this time a teacher in Pleasantville HS, not far from Stockton and each day I try to pull the very best out of my students, demanding their personal best. I am currently teaching physics and freshmen physical science.

I continue to live life and play the game as if it really mattered, knowing that all things considered really it’s just a game and it doesn’t.

Thank you,
George Murray

Comment on The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Removal by Illustration Basics: Part 2 | in the classroom again

Illustration Basics: Part 2 | in the classroom again — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:02:52 +0000

[...] the “settlement” of America. For more information on the Trail of Tears, see this site. GA_googleAddAttr("AdOpt", "1"); GA_googleAddAttr("Origin", "other"); [...]

Comment on Cherokee Place Names, Part 9 by Bartram Trail – Jones Gap to White Rock Mountain – 6/26/11 | Dabbler's Adventures

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:10:56 +0000

[...] “A few miles the confluence of Mud Creek and the Little Tennessee River, just across the line into North Carolina,Tessentee Creek joins the Little Tennessee from the east. Somewhere near this junction lay the small Cherokee village of Tesantee, from which the creek takes its name. We do not know what the name may have meant long ago.” Source: chenocetah.wordpress.com [...]

Comment on About by Michael R

Michael R — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:42:49 +0000

For several generations, my family owned a farm in the Eastatoee Valley in Pickens County. My grandmother told me that as a child, her grandfather told her tales of the days when the Cherokee of that region were forced from the valley. I have always heard that Eastatoee was Cherokee for “Valley of the Green Bird” an apparent reference to the Carolina Parakeet that flocked to the valley every year. The last wild parakeet was seen in the valley in the first decade of the 20th century. Is there any truth to this interpretation? One aside, I asked to take Cherokee as my foreign language in college. The request was denied but recently a former teacher remembered my request and notified me that today such a request would be heartily embraced. Your site gives me great appreciation for the language and its heritage.

Comment on Connestee Falls, North Carolina by Martha Lewis

Martha Lewis — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:12:22 +0000

Have you found out what Echota means?

Comment on Muskogean Influence on Cherokee Place Names by Martha Lewis

Martha Lewis — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:04:22 +0000

I come from Sipsey, Alabama. I’ve been told since I was a child that Sipsey is a Choctaw word meaning “tall poplar tree.”

Also, the original name for Sipsey was Athahatchee. I’ve been told it means “white water.” Is this true?

Do you know what Emathla means?

Thank you for this information on this site!

Comment on Cherokee Place Names, Part 4 by julia

julia — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:13:12 +0000

Hello
I live in n Ga—happy to read all the place name information–thank you. Do you happen to know where
“Wa-lo-si-u-ni-li-sdi-yi” or Fightingtown would have been? I did read that location is not your main goal, just wondered if you might happen to know…
Julia