Talk:Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia

I worked to somewhat expand the article and add Wikilinks. Part of the problem is that the town unincorporated, so there is less info. There is not even agreement as to whether it is 'Sautee-Nacoochee' or 'Sautee Nacoochee'. Cynrin 20:50, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

So I made a trip up to North Georgia and according to the sign on the post office, it is 'Sautee Nacoochee' with no hyphen. The 'Sautee-Nacoochee Community Association' is hyphenated, however, but the 'Sautee Nacoochee Center' is not. Cynrin 02:10, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Assessment

If you would like to know why I assessed the article the way I have, please use my talk page. Ethan (talk) 00:15, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

Gold Rush - sources

See [1] and [2]. Dougweller (talk) 10:04, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Etymology

So a lot of NA placenames have been mangled beyond easy recognition and often get false etymologies applied to them. When in 2015 user:talamachusee removed the fake Choctaw etymology of Sautee Nacoochee, that was right. But I think his proposed replacement--that the Muscogee words for raccoon-people sawate and bear nokose after being filtered through Cherokee then English equal "Sautee Nacoochee"--isn't any better. As if "bear" follows patterns of Creek placenames anyway. Sawate isn't in that dictionary referenced either--the word wotko for raccoon is--though John Swanton and Frederick Hodge in several old Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology publications listed Sawokli as a probable Hitchiti (a separate language from Muscogee) contraction of raccoon-people and note that cartographers throughout the 18th century pegged it as a Lower Creek village. The user's proposed etymology does not seem credible to me and is apparently of his own interpretation given that the only source is a dictionary that doesn't support the translation. But I don't think I can come at it neutrally on the article. Iaksones (talk) 07:22, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Update 5 years later--I nuked his Muskogean etymology, it's clearly from his (Richard Thornton's) own highly biased blogs and suspect original research. If someone wants to cite credible research on the Muskogean origins for Sautee and/or Nacoochee instead of Cherokee--which isn't crazy, it's not like London is of Anglo-Saxon origin--they can. Iaksones (talk) 16:55, 7 September 2023 (UTC)