Did you know that “Cherokee” is derived by the whites from the Muskogee Creek word “Tsalagi”???
Tsalagi meant “people of a different speech”...
The older name for the tribe was “AniYunYiya” which meant “principle people”...
My late wife’s kin has lots of provable Cherokee in their background.
The family claim that I had Cherokee in my background proved to be wishful thinking. that person was a German-Italian orphan from Chicago.