What is a former name for the river on which Guntersville, Alabama was founded?
Tennessee River The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 mi long and is located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee Valley. The river was once popularly known as the Cherokee River, among other names, as many of the Cherokee had their territory along its banks, especially in eastern Tennessee and northern Alabama. Its current name is derived from the Cherokee village "Tanasi".
Taensa The Taensa (also Tensas, Tensaw, and grands Taensas in French ) were a Native American people whose early settlements, approximately 1,200 people in several villages, had their former locations in present-day Tensas Parish, Louisiana. The Taensa ultimately migrated as a result of Chickasaw and Yazoo hostilities, first lower down the river, but ultimately, protected by the French, to lands near the current eponymous Tensas river near Mobile, Alabama "ca." 1740. The meaning of the name, which has the further variants "Taënsa", "Taenso", "Tinsas", "Tenza" or "Tinza", "Tahensa" or "Takensa", and "Tenisaw", is unknown, although it is believed to be an autonym.