MooNEV) GLOSSARY 543 



l'iu''f;;"i-ililu' — " White-nuui-kilk'r" ; Imiii iiiu'(/ii, "white,'' ior t/i'm'inoii''i/it, '■white 

 IKTSon," a,nd dihV, a noun suttix denoting "killer" ("he kills them" habitually). 

 A Cherokee chief, whose name ajipears in documents about 1790 as W'hite-man- 

 killer, or, by misprint Unacala. It is an old masculine name, existing until 

 recently upon the reservation. Cf. Ta'ffwMihV. 



u'niskwetuVl — "they wear a hat"; filshre'tmrCt' , hat, Inini uahV , head. The may- 

 apiilc {J'odoplu/llnm). See number 12»i. 



unistih'in'istl — "they stick on along their whole lengtn"; the generii- name lor 

 "stickers" and burs, including the Spanish needle, cockle bur, jiuisoii weeil, 

 etc. See nvimber 126. 



uni'tsl — her mother; agitsV, my mother. 



Uniyft'hitun'yl — "Where they shot it," from te-ii/a'i/iii, "I shoot," and//;, locative. 

 A [ilace on Tuckasegee river a short distance above Bryson City, in Swain county, 

 Xortli Carolina. See number 100. 



Untoola — see Dihyhn'duW . 



Unta'kiyasti'yl — "Where they race," from lnkiijn'ti'i, a race, and )/?, locative; locally 

 (•orrui)ted to Tahkeyostee. The district on the French Broad river, aroun<l Ashe- 

 ville, in Buncombe county, North Carolina. The town itself is known to the 

 Cherokee as Kdsdu'yl, "Ashes place," (from bi-idu, ashes, and ifl, locative), 

 which is intended as a translation of its proper name. See number 122. 



Untla-sgasti'yl — "Where they scratched"; a place at the head of Hyatt creek of 

 Valley river, in Cherokee county, Xorth Caroliiui. For tradition see number 122. 



Untoola — see Dihi/iifi'dnUt'. 



uniuVtl — milk. 



usdi'git (abbreviated ii.i(U'), small; ])lural taiinxdi'f/ii, tfiuntidi'. 



usga'sf'ti'yu — very dangerous, very terrible; intensive of usga'setl. 



Uskwiile'na — "Big-head," from ii.'ika', head; a masculine name, perhaps the origmal 

 of the "Bull-head," given by Haywood as the name of a former noted Chero- 

 kee warrior. 



Uskwa'll-gii'til — "His stomach hangs down," from uxlnod'tt, his stomach, and (ju'tH, 

 "it hangs down." A prominent chief of the Revolutionary period, known to 

 the whites as Hanging-maw. 



U'stilna'li (from u'xtAnald'lu or niii'Muna'lA (a plural form), denoting a natural 

 barrier of rocks (plural) across a stream) — a name occurring in several ])laces in 

 the old Cherokee country, and variously spelled Kastinaulee, Kastanora, Esta- 

 naula, Eustenaree, Istanare, Oostanaula, Oostinawley, Ustenary, etc. One settle- 

 ment of this name was on Keowee river, below the present Fort Cieorge, in 

 Oconee county. South Carolina; another seems to have been somewhere on the 

 waters of Tuckasegee river, in western North Carolina; a third, prominent 

 during and after the Revolutionary period, wa.s just above the junction of Coosa- 

 watce and (jonasauga rivers to form the Oostanaula, in Gordon county, (ieorgia, 

 anil adjoining New Echota (see (ianxd'gl). Other settlements of the same name 

 may have been on ICastanoUee creek f)f Tugaloo river, in Franklin county, 

 Georgia, and on Eastaunaula creek, flowing into Hiwassee river, in McMinn 

 county, Tennessee, (^f. Txn'Ktanidun'ifi, under Dt'tgund'hl.. 



u'stl\tl — see almf/h 



Usti^'tll — a traditional dangerous serpent. The name signifies having something on 

 the calf of the leg or on the heel, from u.tli'iti'iil'1, (his) calf of the leg (attached). 

 It is applied also to the southern hoop-snake (Ahaxlor eriitltfo<)r(i)ii»nts). See 

 number 54. 



Usin"ihi'yl — the "Darkening land," where it is always getting dark, as at twilight. 

 The name used for the west in the myths and sacnnl formulas; the common 

 word is ivudi/Urjun'ifi, "there where it (the sun) goes down." In number 63 the 

 word used is V'usfihilnm'i/i, "there where they stay over night." See also 

 TKi'i.v/ind''i. 



