Guwahiyi

Guwahiyi is Kuwohiyi, the Cherokee name of Keowee, meaning 'place of the mulberry patch', principal town of the seven Lower Towns, and here denotes the Cherokee of the Lower and Middle Towns east of the Blue Ridge, in western South Carolina, northern Georgia and western North Carolina. They lived in permanent river-valley towns such as Keowee and Tugaloo, and held Kituwah as their mother town, from which one of their self-designations, Anigiduwagi, is derived.

Their speech was the Lower dialect of Cherokee, which kept an r sound where the Overhill dialect used l. In 1716 warriors from Tugaloo killed a Muscogee Creek delegation, marking their entry into the Yamasee War.

Smallpox in 1738 and 1739 killed nearly half their people. During the Anglo-Cherokee War of 1760 and the fighting of 1776, militias destroyed Keowee and dozens of other towns, after which survivors moved south and west into Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.