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This is not posted to just create controversy but to give another twist to finding the truth....From French Broad
Hustler Vol 1 1905-1910 Page 80:
NOT THE OLD INDIAN NAME
Dear Sir:--I see in your issue of 25th that the old Indian name of Mud Creek was "Oclawaha," but I have excellent grounds for believing that this name was not the old Indiam name, as the word is from the Seminoles, a tribe that still live-a remnant of them in Florida; and a navigable stream, a tributary of the St. John's, bears this name to this day. The above name was probably given by some of the earlier settlers at Flat Rock, in 1826 or 30, or even earlier.
In 884 Nimrod Jarrett Smith, then chief of the Cherokees in Swain county, told me their old name for Mud Greek was "Osaquehaha",had never heard of "Oclawaha", and that word was not Cherokee; but as now so long in use, I should think it well to retain it; and apply "Osaquehaha," to the most important prong-----Clear Creek
My note: It continues with the names of more Cherokee words and ends with
Yours truly, A.M. Huger
Of course Frank was just using the name that had been hended down many years for his books
Earl Peeler
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