MOONEY] THK CKKKKS JiSS 



Mboilt 111 miles nortii of Athuitil. to Coosa river in Alahuiiia. ami tlieiiee 

 northwest to strike the west line of Aiahania about 20 miles south of 

 the Tennessee. ' 



Anionji" the names whieli remain to siiow tlie foi'nier presence of 

 Creeks nortii of this boundary are the followinjj: Coweeta, a small 

 creek enterine- the Little Tennessee al)ove Franklin. North Carolina; 

 Tomatola (Clierokee. Tama'li). a former town site on Valley i-iver, 

 near Murphy, North Carolina, the name beinj;- tiiat of a former Cr(>ek 

 town on Chattahoochee: Tomotley (Cherokee. 'i'ania'lT). a ford at 

 another town site on Little Tennessee, aliove Tellico mouth, in T(>n- 

 nessee; Coosa (Cherokee, Kusa'), an upi)er creek of Nottely i-iver, in 

 Union county. Georgia: Cliattooija (Chin'olvce, Tsatii'yi). a river in 

 nortiiwest Georgia; Chattooga (Cherokee, Tsatu'gi), another river, a 

 head-stream of Savannah; Chattahoochee river (Creek, Chatu-huchi, 

 '■pictured roeks"); Coosawatee (Cherokee, Ku'sa-weti'yi. "OldCreek 

 place"), a river in northwestern (xeorgia; Tali'wa, the Cherokee form 

 of a Creek name for a place on an upper l)rancli of Etowah river in 

 Georgia, probaljly from the Creek fd'hia or Ita'Ina, "town"; Euhariee 

 (Cherokee. Yuha'll, said by the Cherokee to be from Yufala or Eu- 

 faula. the name of sevei'al Creek towns), a creek flowing into lower 

 Etowaii river; Suwanee (Cherokee. Suwa'ni) a small creek on u])j)er 

 Chattahoochee, the site of a former Cherokee town with a name which 

 the Cherokee say is Creek. Several othei' names within the same terri- 

 tory are said by the Cherokee to be of foreign origin, althougli perhaps 

 not Creek, and may be from the Taskigi language. 



According to Cherokee tradition as given to Haj-wood nearly eiglity 

 years ago the country al>out the mouth of Hiwassee river, in Tennessee, 

 was held by the Creeks, while the Cherokee still had their main .settle- 

 ments farther to the north, on the Little Tennessee. In the Shawano 

 war, about the year 170(1, the Creeks preten(l(>d friendship for the 

 Cherokee while secretly helping their enemies, the Shawano. The 

 Cherokee discovered the treachery, and took occasion, wh(>n a part}- 

 of Creeks was visiting a dance at Ttstl'ti (Echota). th(^ Cherokee capital, 

 to fall upon them and mas.sacre nearly every man. The con.sequence 

 was a war between the two tribes, with the final result that the Creeks 

 were forced to abandon all their settlements ujjon the waters of the 

 Tenne.s.see, and to withdraw south to the Coosa and the neighborliood 

 of the "Creek path." an old trading trail from South Carolina, which 

 cross(Ml at th(> junction of the Oostanaula and Etowah rivers, where now 

 is the city of Rome, (reorgia, and struck the Tennessee at the present 

 Guntersville, Alai)ama. 



As an incident of this war the same tradition relates how the 

 Cherokee once approached a large Creek settlemiint "at the island on 



iRoyce, The Cherokee Nntkm nf Indians, in Filth Report of Bureau of Ethnology, pp. 205-208, 266- 

 272, 1887; ulso (for 1783) Barinini. Travels, p. 483, 1792. 



