Tsalagi

Tsalagi is a name associated with the Cherokee, whose towns lay along the rivers of the southern Appalachians. Their language belongs to the Iroquoian family, and their hunting grounds extended northward beyond the towns. The mountain country between the Kanawha and Big Sandy rivers lay within lands claimed by the Cherokee, while the valleys to the south contained many of their settlements. Rivers and mountain gaps linked these homelands across the Appalachian ridges.