checkecame

Updated: June 6, 2025

After death he travelled on in the path of the dead for three days, without meeting with any thing extraordinary. He kept the road in which souls go to the Cheke Checkecame, and over mountains, and through valleys, pursued his way steadily. Hunger at length visited him, and he began to suffer much from want of food.

James Athearn Jones - Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2