Amoyeli Gunahita

Amoyeli Gunahita is the Cherokee name for Long Island in the Holston River, a sacred meeting place on the Great Indian Warrior Path. Travellers following the route between the Cherokee country and lands to the north crossed near the island, which also served as neutral ground for settling disputes. Its position made it valuable to traders and settlers as well as to the Cherokee.

During the Cherokee War of 1776, fighting reached the Holston settlements near the island. The following year Cherokee representatives met commissioners from North Carolina and Virginia at Long Island and concluded treaties of peace that ceded further land. The Cherokee retained their claim to the island itself until a later treaty in 1806 transferred it to the United States.