374.
[25-2] The late Professor W.W.Turner of Washington, and Professor Buschmann of Berlin, are the two scholars who have traced the boundaries of this widely dispersed family.

The name is drawn from Lake Athapasca in British America.
[25-3] The Cherokee tongue has a limited number of words in common with the Iroquois, and its structural similarity is close.

The name is of unknown origin.

It should doubtless be spelled _Tsalakie_, a plural form, almost the same as that of the river Tellico, properly Tsaliko (Ramsey, _Annals of Tennessee_, p.

87), on the banks of which their principal towns were situated.