MOONF.V] LOCAL LEGKI^DS OF NORTH CAROLINA 409 



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Standing Indian: A hioh hald peak at the extreme head of Nanta- 

 hahi river, in Macon county. The name is a rendering of the Chero- 

 kee name, Yufi'wi-t.sulenafi'yl, " W'iiere the man stood" (originally 

 Yii'iiwi-dlkatagun'yi, " \\'here the man stands "), given to it on account 

 of a peculiarlv shaped rock formerly jutting out from the hald sum- 

 mit, ])ut now broken oil'. As the old memory faded, a tradition grew 

 up of a mysterious being once seen standing upon the mountain top. 



Stekoa: a spot on Tuckasegee river, just above Whitticr, in Swain 

 county, better known as the Thomas farm, from its tjcing the former 

 residence of Colonel W. H. Thomas, for a long time the agent of the 

 East Cherokee. The correct form is Stika'yi, the name of an ancient 

 settlement at the place, as also of another on a creek of the same name 

 in Kabun county, Georgia. The word has been incorrectly rendered 

 "little grease," from usdi'gu or usdl', "little," and A'«'«, "grease" or 

 "oil," l^ut the true meaning is lost. 



Swannanoa: A river joining the French Broad at Asheville, and the 

 gap in the Blue ridge at its head. A magazine writer has translated 

 this name "the beautiful." The word, however, is a corrujjtion of 

 Suwa'li-nufina'(-hi), "Suwali tniii." the Cherokee name, not of the 

 stream, l)ut of the trail crossing the gap toward the country of the 

 Ani'-Suwa'li or Cheraw (see numl)er lo-i, "The Eastern Tribes"). 



Swim uald or Wolf Creek bald. See Cheowa Maximum. 



Tsi'skwuxsdi'-adsisti'yi: "Where they killed Little-bird," a place 

 near the head of West Butialo creek, southwest of Kobhinsville, in 

 Graham county. A ti'ail crosses the ridge near this place, which takes 

 its name from a man who was killed here by a hostile war party in the 

 old fighting days. 



Tsu'dinunti'yi: "Throwing down place," the site of a former set 

 tlement in a bend on the west side of Nantahala river, just within the 

 limits of Macon county. So called from a tradition that a Cherokee 

 pursued by the enemy threw awa}' his equipment there. 



TsuKiLfNNf n'yi: "Where he alighted," two small l)ald spots on the 

 side of the mountain at the head of Little Snowbird creek, southwest 

 of Robbinsville, in Graliain county. A mysterious being, having the 

 form of a giant, witli head blazing like the sun, was once seen tolly 

 through the air, alight at this place, and stand for some tune looking 

 out over the landscape. It then (lew away, and when the people came 

 afterward to lo<jk, they found (he herbage burned from the ground 

 where it had stood. They do not know who it was, but some think it 

 may have been the Sun. 



Tsila'sinCn'yi: "Where the footprint is," on Tuckasegee I'iver. 

 about a mile above Deep creek, in Swain county. From a rock now 



