526 MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE [f.th. ann. I'J 



Kii'sil-nuniui'liI — "Creek trail," from Ku'.iA, Creek Indian, and nunnd'M, path, 

 trail; cf. Sim'd'tl-nnnnd'hl. A former important Cherokee settlement, includ- 

 ing also a number of Creeks and Shawano, where the trail from the Ohio region 

 to the Creek country crossed Tennessee river, at the present Guntersville, in Mar- 

 sliall county, Alabama. It was known to tlie traders as Creek-path, and lateras 

 (runter's landing, from a Cherokee mixed-blood named Gunter. 



Ku'sflweti'yl (aljlireviated Kn'mweti') — "Old Creek place," from Kii'sd, a Creek 

 Indian (plural Ani'-Kn'xa) , vire'fl, old, and y't, locative. Coosawatee, an 

 iiniMirtant Cherokee settlement formerly on the lower part of Coosawatee river, 

 in Gordon county, Georgia. In one document the name appears, by error, 

 Tensawattee. See page 382. 



Kuwii'hl — "Mulberry place," from Icu'wii, mulberry tree, and hi, locative; Cling- 

 man's dome, about the head of Deep creek, on the Great Smoky range, between 

 Swain county. North Carolina, and Sevier county, Tennessee. See also Keowee. 



Kuwanda'ta'luii'yl (abbreviated Kiimmdd'tah'iu) — "Mulberry grove," from ku'wd, 

 mulberry; the Cherokee name for the present site of Knoxville, in Knox county, 

 Tennessee. 



Kwa'U, Kwaluii'yl — Qualla or Quallatown, the former agency for the East Cherokee 

 and now a postoffice station, just outside the reservation, on a branch of Soco 

 creek, in Jackson county. North Carolina. It is the Cherokee form for " Polly," 

 and the station was so called from an old woman of that name who formerly 

 lived nearby; Kica'ti, " FoWy, " Kivalufi'iit, "Polly's jilace." The reservation is 

 locally known as the Qualla boundary. 



kwandaya'hii — see da'ltksKi'. 



lil'lu — the jar-fly (Cicada aideles) . See number 59. 



Little Carpenter, Little Cornplanter — see AtCt'-guthdW. 



Lloyd — see Da'sigiya'gt. 



Long-hair — a Cherokee chief living with his band in Ohio in 1795. See page 79. 

 The literal Cherokee translation of "Long-hair" is GitUi'-gim&lu'tfi, but it is not 

 certain that the English name is a correct rendering of the Indian form. Cf. 

 Ani'-aildnti. 



Long island — see Amaye tl-gundhi'ta. 



Lookout Mountain town — see Danda'gdmY. 



LowREY, Major George — see AgiU. 



Mayes, J. B.— see Tsd'ioH Ga¥skl. 



Memphis — see Tgudd'tatesi'in'yl. 



Mi alaquo — see A ni&ye l-e'gu-o. 



Morgan — see AganMd'ta. 



Moses — see WA'sl. 



Moytov — a Cherokee chief recognized by the English as "emperor" in 1730. Both 

 the correct form and the meaning of the name are uncertain; the name occurs 

 again as Moyatoy in a document of 1792; a boy upon the East Cherokee reserva- 

 tion a few years ago bore the name of Ma'tayl', for which no meaning can be 

 given. 



Muscle shoals — see Ddgu'udhi. 



Nacoochee — see Na'gutsl'. 



Na'dii'lf — known to the whites as Nottcly. A former Cherokee settlement on Not- 

 tely river, close to the Georgia line, in Cherokee county. North Carolina. The 

 name cannot be translated and has no connection with ?ia7((7?, "spicewood." 



Nagu't.sl' — a former important settlement about the junction of Soquee and Santee 

 rivers, in Nacoochee valley, at the head of Chattahoochee river, in Habersham 

 county, Georgia. The meaning of the word is lust and it is doubtful if it be of 



