> > On the other hand, I don't know how we got "Cherokee" ['tSEr\@ki]
> > out of "Tsalagi" /tsAlAgi/,
>
>That one is easy - it went the other way round. Quote from a Cherokee
>webpage:
>
>"People: 'Cherokee' is Creek for 'people with another language'. (It's
>really amazing how white settlers always managed to learn some other
>tribe's name for any group of Indians. They learned the Creek word for
Like "Eskimo" or "Esquimeaux" - meaning "flesh eaters" - for the Inuit
>Cherokee, but not the Creek word for themselves.) Anyway, our original
>name for ourselves was Aniyunwiya, but Cherokee is fine too (though we
_Ani-yunwi-ya_
/we-people-true/
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