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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.). Auteur du texte
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1897
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
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Description : 1897
Description : 1897 (N19,PART1)-1898.
Description : Note : Index.
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danced over some Osage scalps sent by their relatives in the west as trophies of a recent victory.
Other old Cherokee names for western tribes which can not be identified are Tayûn'ksï, the untranslatable name of a tribe described simply as living in theWest; Tsuniya'tig'â, "Nakedpeople," described as living in thé far West; Gûn'-tsuskwa~lï, ~Short-arrows,"wholived in thé far West, and were small, but great nghters; Yûn'wini'giskî, ~Man-eaters," a hostile tribe west or north, possibly the cannibal Atakapa or Tonkawa, of Louisiana or Texas. Their relations with the tribes with which they have become acquainted since the removal to Indian Territory do not corne within the scope of this paper. io6. THE &IANTS FROM THE WEST
James Wafford, of thé western Cherokee, who was born in Georgia in 1806, says that his grandmother, who must have been born about the middle of the last century, told him that she had heard from the old people that long before her time a party of giants had corne once to visit the Cherokee. They were nearly twice as tall as common men, and had their eyes set slanting in their heads, so that the Cherokee called them Tsunil' kâlû', "The Slant-eyed people," because they looked like the giant hunter Tsurkâlû~ (see the story). They said that these giants lived very far away in the direction in which the sun goes down. The Cherokee received them as friends, and they stayed some time, and then returned to their home in the west. The story may be a distorted historical tradition.
107. THE LOST CHEROKEE
When the first lands were sold by the Cherokee, in 1731, a part of the tribe bitterly opposed thé sale, saying that if thé Indians once consented to give up any of their territory the whites would never be satisiied, but would soon want a little more, and a little again, until at last there would be none left for the Indians. Finding ail they could say not enough to prevent the treaty, they determined to leave their old homes forever and go far into the West, beyond the Great river, where the white men could never follow them. They gave no heedto the entreaties of.their friends, but began preparations for thé long march, until thé others, finding that they could not prevent their going, set to work and did their best to fit them out with pack horses loaded with bread, dried venison, and other supplies. When all was ready they started, under the direction of their chief. A company of picked men was sent with themto help them in crossing the Great river, and every night until they reached it l'mmers were sent back to the tribe, and out from the tribe to the marching band, to carry messages and keep each party posted as to how the other was getting along. At last they came to the Mississippi, and crossed it by