Myths of the Cherokee / Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology

by James Mooney

Ani′-Tsĭ′ksû—the Chickasaw Indians; singular, Tsĭ′ksû.

Ani′-Tsi′skwa—“Bird people;” one of the seven Cherokee clans.

Ani′tsu′tsă—“The Boys,” from atsu′tsă, boy; the Pleiades. See [number 10].

Ani′-Wâ′dĭ—“Paint people”; one of the seven Cherokee clans.

Ani′-Wâdihĭ′—“Place of the Paint people or clan”; Paint town, a Cherokee settlement on lower Soco creek, within the reservation in Jackson and Swain counties, North Carolina. It takes its name from the Ani′-Wâ′dĭ or Paint clan.

ani′wani′skĭ—the bugle weed, Lycopus virginicus; literally, “they talk” or “talkers,” from tsiwa′nihû, “I am talking,” awani′skĭ, “he talks habitually.” See [number 26].

Ani′-Wasa′sĭ—the Osage Indians; singular, Wasa′sĭ.

Ani′-Wa′ʻya—“Wolf people”; the most important of the seven Cherokee clans.

Ani′-Yu′tsĭ—the Yuchi or Uchee Indians; singular Yu′tsĭ.

Ani′-Yûñ′wiyă′—Indians, particularly Cherokee Indians; literally “principal or real people,” from yûñwĭ, person, yă, a suffix implying principal or real, and ani′, the tribal prefix. See pages [5] and [182].