Cherokee term for 'china clay'

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Thu Jul 13 08:09:00 UTC 2006


On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Craig Kopris wrote:

> As far as attested Cherokee terms are concerned, according to Pulte &
> Feeling's 1975 Cheroke-English dictionary, 'unega' is Cherokee for
> "white"

That sounds like it might work as the source of the English terms.  I'll
discard the "Chinese textual source" hypothesis.



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