- Chara, Joara, Juada, Sara, Saraw, Saura, Suali, Sualy,
Xualla, Xualae, and Xuala.
Xuala and
Xualla were
Spanish and
Portuguese spellings of
their name....
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Rudes analyzed sixteenth-century
placenames from Cofitachique/Canos to
Xualla.
Rudes used the term
Cofitachique in a
broad sense to
include all the towns...
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their descendants. The
scholar T.H.
Lewis at
first ****ociated the term
Xualla with the
modern Qualla Boundary and
thought it was Cherokee. Most modern...