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. The spot where Valley river joins Hiwassee, at Murphy, in North Carolina, was known among the Cherokee as Tlanusiyi (Tlahnooseeyee) "the leech place". This was the story they told of it: just above the junction is a deep hole in Valley river and above it is a ledge of rock running across the stream,