Definition of Chalaque. Meaning of Chalaque. Synonyms of Chalaque

- Carolina and what is considered Cherokee country. The Spanish recorded a Chalaque people as living around the Keowee River, where western North Carolina...
- many Siouan peoples of the region. Deeper inland were the lands of the Chalaques, or ancestral Cherokees. Other tribes who entered the region over time...
- villages later identified as Cherokee in Georgia and Tennessee. It recorded a Chalaque nation as living around the Keowee River where present-day North Carolina...
- explorers also gave them the nicknames Chalaques & Uchis during the 16th century, and English colonists turned Chalaques into Cherokees. The Cherokees we know...
- Spanish also gave them the nicknames Chalaques and Uchis during the 16th century and the English turned Chalaques into Cherokees. The Cherokees we know...
- chiefdom site. De Soto's 1540 expedition also noted the Chalaque people in the area near Joara. Chalaque is believed by scholars to refer to the Cherokee. The...
- village of Xuala (Joara, in modern Burke County) on May 21. It recorded the Chalaque people nearby. The expedition reached the headwaters of the Toe River on...
- Europeans to encounter the Mississippian culture people, in the towns of Chalaque, Guaqili, Xuala (Joara), and Guasili. Joara was a regional chiefdom established...
- century. In his Myths of the Cherokee (1888) he writes: It first appears as Chalaque in the Portuguese narrative of De Soto's expedition, published originally...