The Casa tribe, homeland, and language

[Rankin, Robert L]

> The Geographic Names Information System (citing James Montgomery's 'The Nomenclature of the Upper Tennessee River') states that the "Acanseasipi River" river refers to the Tennessee River: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=121:3:530840878239254790::NO::P3_FID:517033
 
> Is this the most likely identification of the "River of the Kansa"?
 
I don't know.  The French maps are not accurate enough for us to be anywhere near certain just on that basis alone.  Montgomery may have had additional sources, but often this sort of identification involves "interpretation".  I'm not a geographer though.
 
Bob