Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. In the old days there was a great fish called the Dakwa, which lived in Tennessee River where Toco creek comes in at Dakwai, the "great fish place" above the mouth of the Tellico and which was so large that it could easily swallow a man. Once a canoe filled with warriors was crossing over from the town to