Catawba

Etymology
From, as the tree was the people's totem.

Noun

 * 1) A member of a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Iswa.
 * 2) * 1970, a Catawba origin story, told and retold by various individuals, and printed by Charles M. Hudson in his book The Catawba Nation:
 * There was a Catawba brave who took some pottery [to another tribe] to trade for bows and arrows. This chief [of the other tribe] had a beautiful daughter, and the Catawba brave fell in love with her, and she likewise fell in love with him. When the Catawba brave left, she asked her father for a bow and arrow. She shot it in the air in the direction the brave went, and then she went to get it. She kept shooting it in the air until she caught up with him.
 * 1)  A reddish American dessert grape.

Translations

 * Unami: Katapa

Proper noun

 * 1) The now-extinct language of this people.
 * 2) A river in the Carolinas which rises in the Blue Ridge Mountains and flows approximately 220 miles (350 km) before joining the Wateree River and ultimately flowing into the Atlantic. [[Image:Santeerivermap.png|thumb|The path of the Catawba river.]]