were sold by the treaty of 1819, Yonaguska continued
to reside on a reservation of 640 acres in a bend of the river a short dis-
tance above the present Bryson City, on the site of the ancient
Kituhwa. 1 le afterward moved over to Oconaluftee, and finally, after
the Removal, gathered his people about him and settled with them on
Soco creek on lands purchased for them by Thomas.
'The fact? concerning Colonel Thorna-- '* < :nvi t uiv .1' -rived chiefly from the author's conversations
with Thomas himself, supplemented by information from his former assistant, Capt. James W.
Terrell, and others who knew him. together with an admirable sketch in the North Carolina Univer-
sity Magazine for May 1899, by Mrs. A. c. Avery, his daughter. He is also frequently noticed, in con-
nection with EastCherokee matters, in the annual reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs; in
the North Carolina Confederate Roster; in Lanman's Letters from the Alleghany Mountains; and in
Zeiglerand Grosscup's Heart of the Alleghanies, etc. Some manuscript contributions to the library
of the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah— now unfortunately mislaid— show his interest in
Cherokee linguistics.
> sey] YONAGUSKA L63
Ilr was a prophel and reformer as well a~ a chief. When about
sixty years of age be had a severe sickness, terminating in a trance,
dui'ing which his people mourned him as dead. At the end of twent}
four hours, however, he awoke to consciousness and announced thai he
hail been to the spirit world, where he had talked with friends who
had gone before, and with God, who had sent him hark witli a message
to the Indians,