Cherohakah

Nottoway Alternative forms ntw Cheroohoka Tcherohakaʔ Etymology ntw. Rudes 1981 suggests ntw <alt:chero-><pos:akin to tus čárhuʔ tobacco> -hakah<pos:populative suffix, akin to tus -há·ka·ʔ characteriser suffix> people of the tobacco. A folk etymology propagated by the tribe itself is that it means “people at the fork of the stream”, based on the tribe’s lodging area being where the Nottoway River forks with the Blackwater River (Virginia) Blackwater River to form the Chowan River.2018-12-31 Chief Walt “Red Hawk” Brown Ethno-historical / Current Snap Shot of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Nation of Southampton County, Virginia https://web.archive.org/web/20201101133923/http://www.cheroenhaka-nottoway.org/nottoway-history/snap-shot.htm Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe Compare tus Čiruʔęhá·ka·ʔ. Pronunciation ntw /t͡ʃiroʔẽˈhaːkaːʔ/<q:reconstructed> Proper noun ntw proper noun Nottoway people Descendants en Cheroenhaka 1 References 48 177 ntw Native American tribes