Yes, in our language (Injuns Rob? Ouch that hurts buddy...we prefer Natives or as we call ourselves "Skins"--we're allowed to be politically incorrect aren't we, kinda like you callin yourself "Cracker") it means yellow...we pronounce it Da li ne gi a (e sounds like long a); our word for money is a de la (e sounds like long a again)....my screen name Tsa la gi is actually what we call ourselves...the word Cherokee is a distortion of the Choctaw word "chalaque" which meant "cave"...they lived in the flatlands, we lived in the mountains--they were calling us cave people haha....the white settlers distorted it into Cherokee because they couldn't pronounce it. Dahlonega was the first place they found gold in the state of Georgia, after which we were no longer considered citizens of the U.S., giving the U.S. Government the right to begin the removal process to Indian Country (now known as Oklahoma)--all except for a small band of my ancestors who fought till the end and were finally given the small reservation on which we still live.....NEVER SURRENDER!! Sorry for the long post but it peaked my interest in a personal way...
Lee
Tsi tsa la gi sti gi sta yu no le ga li e li ga)
(We are strong happy Native People)
