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(lanced ()\cr soiiu! Osuyc scalps sent hy their relatives in llie west as 

 trophies of a recent victory. 



Other old Cherokee names for western tribes wliicli can not he idon- 

 titied ai'e 'i'ayun'ksl. the untranslattihle name of a tribe described sim- 

 ply as livinu in the \\'est: 1 suniya'tij>-ii, " Naked people," described as 

 living in tiie far ^Vest; tiun'-tsuskwa' li, "Short-arrows." who lived 

 in the far ^^'est. and were small, but great fighters; Yun'wini'oiski, 

 ■•Man-eaters." a hostile tribe west or north, possibly tiie cannibal 

 Atakapa or Tonkawa. of Louisiana or Texas. Tiieir relations with 

 the tribes with which they have become acquainted since the removal 

 to Indian Territorv do not come within the scope t)f this paper. 



io6. THE GIANTS FROM THE WEST 



James Wafford, of the western Cherokee, who was boi-n in Georgia 

 in 1S0(). says that his grandmother, who must have l)een born about 

 the middle of the last century, told him that she had heard from the 

 old people that long before her time a party of giants had tome once 

 to visit the Cherokee. They were nearly twice as tall as lommon 

 men. and had their eyes set slanting in their heads, so that the Chero- 

 kee called them Tsunil' kiilu'. ""The Slant-eyed people," because they 

 looked like the giant hunter Tsufkillu' (see the story). They said 

 that these giants lived verj- far awaj' in the direction in which the sun 

 goes down. The Cherokee received them as friends, and the}' .stayed 

 som(> time, and then returned to their home in the west. The story 

 ma\' be a distorted historical tradition. 



107. THE LOST CHEROKEE 



When the first lands were sold by the Cherokee, in 1721, a part of the 

 tribe bitterly opposed the sale, saying that if the Indians once con- 

 sented to gi\'e up any of their territory the white.s would never be 

 satisfied, but would soon want a little more, and a little again, until 

 at last there would be none left for the Indians. Finding.all they 

 could say not enough to prevent the treaty, they determitied to 

 leave their old homes forever and go far into the West, beyond the 

 Great river, where the white men could never follow them. Thev' 

 gave no heed to the (>ntreaties of their friends, but })egan preparations 

 for the long march, until the others, finding thiit they could not pre- 

 vent their going, set to work and did their best to fit them out with 

 pack horses loaded with bread, dried venison, and other supplies. 



When all was ready they started, mider the direction of their chief. 

 A company of picked men was sent with them to help them in crossing 

 the Great river, and every night until they reached it luimers were 

 sent back to the tribe, and out from the tribe to the marching band, to 

 carry messages and keep each party posted as to how the other was 

 getting along. .\t last th(>y came to the Mississippi, and cros.sed it by 



