522 MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEK [eth..ixn.19 



IlicKouv-LOC. — see Waiu'' -axim' tlfm ifi . 



H 11 u 1 row EK — see I'iawd'. 



liila'fri'i'? — '""^' many? liow imicli? (Upper ilialect); the JlidiUe dialeot form is 



liilahi'yu — long ago; the tiiial ya makes it more empliatic. 



hi'h"ifinu — " (thou) go to sleep"; from tsl'lihu', " I am asleep." 



lil'skl — live; cf. Mohawk lohh. The Cherokee numerals including 10 are as follows: 



m'lju'i'i, lii'lt, Isd't, rmn'gt, hVsId, siit'lfilX, rjutkwA'rfi, tsune'la, samie'la, iiskd'hi. 

 HiwAssEE — see Ai/uhiru'nh 



hi'yagu'w^ — an unmeaning dance refrain. See number 32. 

 HorsTON, 8.\MUEL — see Kd'h'wu. 

 hungu' — see Inla'yu. 

 huhu — the yellow-breasted chat, or yellow mciekingbird {Itieria dmis); the nami' is 



an onomatope. See number 45. 

 hunyahu'skit — "he will die." 

 hwl'lahi' — "thou (must) go." 



igilgvi'tl — daylight. The name is sometimes applied to the uHinsu'll (q. v.), and also 

 to the clematis vine. 



i'hya — the cane reed (Ariaulin(iria) o( tlie (luif states, used Tiy the Indians for Ulow- 

 guns, fishing rods, and basketry. 



ihya'ga — see nlsil'sHuCi. 



i'nftdu' — snake. 



I'nildu-na'I — "(iioing-snake," a Cherokee chief prominent about eighty years ago. 

 The name properly signifies that the person is "going along in company with a 

 snake," the verbal part oeing from the irregular verb ada'1, "I am going along 

 with him." The name has been given to a district of the present Cherokee 

 Nation. 



i'nilge'hl — dwelling in the wilderness, an inhabitant of the wilderness; from I'liaiji-'t, 

 "wilderness," and »"/(/, halntual present form of ihn, "he i* dwelling"; rji'u, 

 "I am dwelling." 



I'nitge-ufftsun'hl — "He who grew up in the wilderness," i.e. "He who grew up 

 wild"; from i'nage'l, " wilderne.ss, unoccupied timber land," and ut&mn'h'i, tlie 

 third person perfect of the irregular verb, ga'tumku', "I am growing up." 



Ina'li — Black-fox; the common red fox is tsu''ld (in Muscogee, chula) . Black-fox 

 was principal chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1810. See page 86. 



IsK.\GU.\ — "Iskagua or Clear Sky, formerly Nenetooyah or the Bloody-Fellow." 

 The name appears thus in a document of 1791 as that of a Cherokee chief fre- 

 (juently mentioned about that period under the name of "the Bloody Fellow." 

 In one treaty it is given as " Eskaqua or Bloody Fellow." Both forms and 

 etymologies are doubtful, neither form seeming to ha\-e any reference eitlier 

 to "sky" {yAh'dl'liiIri) or "blood" (iji'ija). The fir?t may be intended for 

 Ik-e'gwii, "Great-day." See page 69. 



Istanai-e — see U'stana'll. 



I'su'nigu — an important Cherokee settlement, commonly known to the w^hites as 

 Seneca, formeily on Keowee river, about the mouth of Conneross creek, in Oco- 

 nee county, South Carolina. Hopeweli, the country seat of General Pickens, 

 where the famous treaty was made, was near it on the east side of the river. The 

 word cannot be translate<l. Inn has no connection with the trilwl name, Seneca. 



Itaba — see I'tand'. 



Itagu'nahl — the Cherokee name of John Ax. 



I'tSwil' — The name of one or more Cherokee settlements. One, which existed until 

 the Removal in 1838, was upon Etowah river, about the present Hightower, in 

 Forsvth co\mtv Georgia, .\nother mav have been on Hightower creek of 



