{"id":633,"date":"2023-06-04T22:09:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T02:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/?p=633"},"modified":"2023-06-04T22:09:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T02:09:55","slug":"what-is-unaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/what-is-unaka\/","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8220;Unaka&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pronounced <em>you-NAY-kuh<\/em>, the name comes from the Cherokee word <em>unega<\/em>, which means &#8220;white.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cherokee residents called the Unaka Mountain range that forms part of the Tennessee-North Carolina border the White Mountains.&nbsp; This name likely reflected the blanketing of color seen when American Chestnut tree blossoms that, in Spring, turned the mountainsides white.&nbsp; Before the Great Chestnut Blight, as many as 25-50% of trees in the Unaka mountains were chestnuts.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Mooney, James. (1972). <em>Myths of the Cherokee and sacred formulas of the Cherokee<\/em>. Nashville, Tennessee: C &amp; R Publishers.&nbsp; [cited at https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/ues.carterk12.net\/unaka-elementary-school\/]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronounced you-NAY-kuh, the name comes from the Cherokee word unega, which means &#8220;white.&#8221; Cherokee residents called the Unaka Mountain range that forms part of the Tennessee-North Carolina border the White Mountains.&nbsp; This name likely reflected the blanketing of color seen <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/what-is-unaka\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,18,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities","category-geography-topography","category-local-history-information","category-native-american"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tngenweb.org\/carter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}