Tugaloo

Coordinates: 34 ° 37 ′  N , 83 ° 14 ′  W

Tugaloo​

United States

Tugaloo was a Native American village of the Cherokee tribe on the banks of the Tugaloo River at the mouth of Toccoa Creek, not far from present-day Toccoa in the state of Georgia in the southeastern United States . The Indian village was very close to the historic Travelers Rest inn , which is now a listed building.

The original Indian name of the place was Dugiluyi , which was abbreviated to Dugilu . In the English language of the settlers, the name Tugaloo, Toogelah, Toogoola or something similar was written. The meaning of the word in the Cherokee language is unclear, but according to the researcher Mooney it appears to "refer to a place at the confluence of two rivers".

Tugaloo was one of the "lower villages" of the Cherokee, the main town of the tribe was Keowee . The terms "Lower Villages" and "Lower Cherokee" were used by the English colonists to describe the Cherokee who lived on the Keowee River , Tugaloo River and other headwaters of the Savannah River . In general, the term also corresponds to the expansion of the eastern dialect of the Cherokee language , a language spoken by those Indians who were called the Lower Cherokee by the English.

Today the Tugaloo River is dammed up by the Hartwell Dam and Lake Hartwell covers the former settlement area of ​​the Cherokee.

literature

• James Mooney : Myths of the Cherokee (1900, reissued 1995)