Santeetlah Creek

… rises in W Graham County and flows E into Santeetlah Lake. Name said to have meant "blue waters" in Cherokee, but Mooney's glossary says the Indians did not recognize or understand the name, insisting it was given to the creek by white men. They called the creek Nayuhi geyuni (sandplace stream), and Little Santeetlah Creek was known by them as Tsundaniltiyi