neetah

Updated: July 13, 2026

Another poetic touch the author gives us, from the Cherokee or Cheerake as he spells it explaining that the root, chee-ra, means fire. A Cherokee never extinguished fire save on the occasion of a death, when he thrust a burning torch into the water and said, Neetah intahah "the days appointed him were finished."

Constance Lindsay Skinner - Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground