Lostcheerio

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Hi Sparkgap!

Thanks for the welcome. The Tanawha Trail page that I edited is now once again incorrect in this line:

"Tanawha, the Cherokee word for fabulous hawk or eagle is an appropriate name for this trail that offers hikers views of distant mountains."

Tanawha is not a Cherokee word. Eagle is ᎤᏬᎭᎵ (uwohali.) Hawk is ᏔᏬᏗ (tawodi.) It's likely the person who wrote this got it from the National Park Service page about the trail, which is also wrong. I'm pursuing getting their page edited as well. There's no possible citation to verify that "Tanawha" is a Cherokee word because it is not. This is a pretty significant error, and even though it may have originated with the NPS site, it shouldn't be perpetuated by Wikipedia. If you look at the page for Tanawha, Queensland, the word is sourced as a Maori word for a water guardian, although the source they're citing seems to have been removed.

How should I go about getting this fixed, if not by editing it?

Thank you for any help you can provide. I appreciate it.

Lostcheerio (talk) 22:19, 5 July 2024 (UTC)