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FREE TRANSLATION 



This wood is not to be sold. This paper will be for Ino.ii to 

 keep. 



COMMENTARY 



Timber was one of the principal cash crops of the 19th-century 

 Eastern Cherokee. There are some 143 varieties of trees in the 

 Great Smoky Mountains National Park which abuts their lands 

 (McCall, 1952, p. 12). Timber thievery has always engendered much 

 of the interracial friction existing in the Cherokee country of Okla- 

 homa. It must have been quite prevalent among the denser and 

 more valuable stands at Qualla. 



This document must have been Will Thomas' draft of what he 

 wanted stated upon signs to be erected at the boundaries of his 

 Cherokee land. The endorsement in the handwriting of Sdhiiwi 

 (Steve) summarizes Thomas' proclamation for someone, perhaps 

 Inoili, who could not read English. 



Both Sdhi:wi and Ino:li served as clerk of Wolf town. If Sdhiiwi 

 were the clerk at this time, Ino'Ai must have been some other 

 official of the township; the reverse, however, could have been the 

 case. 



There is a numeral (?) upon the verso: "72Vc," the significance of 

 which is not apparent. 



Mooney did not caption this document. 



NO. 2.— PROCEDURE FOR BORROWING MONEY (I) 

 (first notation) 

 a?nv:yi 7 i:ga dago : we : la : ni 103 ade:lv p] 3 



March 7 day I ■will write it 103 money 3 



ani:se:n(i)si [*] a?sde:hl(v)di niga:hl(i)sda ayerhli p] 



cents to help one, It it just became central 



1 Neither capital letters nor punctuation marks are ordinarily used in Cherokee manuscripts. 



» Also employed for 'letter' or 'book.' 



s This word aboriginally was for 'bead(s).' It has no plural form. In the published literature it is 

 \^Titen ade:la, and in some dialects so pronounced. 



* In Cherokee there are relatively few loanwords from European languages. This word is chiefly con- 

 fined to North CaroUna. 



' The meaning here is 'central authority' of any sort— civic, tribal. State, national, etc. 



