4 This reservation was in the
Cheowa Indian settlement, near the present Robbinsville, in Graham
county, where he died about the year 185S. His grave is still to be
seen just outside of Robbinsville.
1 The facts concerning Yonaguska are based on the author's personal information obtained from
Colonel Thomas, supplemented from conversations with old Indians. The date of his death ami his
approximate age are taken from the Terrell roll. He is also noticed at length in Lanman's Letters from
the Alleghany Mountains, 1848, and in Zeigler and Grosseup's Heart of the Alleghanies, 1883. The
trance which, according to Thomas and Lanman, lasted about one day, is stretched by the last-named
authors to fifteen .lays, with the whole 1,200 Indians marching and countermarching around the
sleeping b< dy '.
° The name in the treaties occurs as Yonahequah(1798), Yohanaqua (1805), and Yonah (1819).—
Indian Treaties, pp. 82, 123, 268; Washington, 1837.
; The name refers to something habitually falling from a leaning position.
* Act quoted in Report of Indian Commissioner for 1895, p. 636, 1896.
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As illustrative of his shrewdne&s it is t < > 1 < I thai he once tracked a
little Indian girl to Charleston, South Carolina, where she had been
carried by kidnappers and sold as a slave, and regained her freedom by
proving, from experl microscopic examination, that her hair had none
of the negro characteristics. 1
Christianity was introduced among the Kituhwa Cherokee shortly
before the Removal through Worcester and Boudinot's translation of
Matthew, first published at New Echota in L829. In the absenceof
missionaries the book was read by the Indians from house to house.
After