The Rev. Mr. Heckewelder was of opinion that _Talligewi_ was a word foreign to the Algonkin, a _nomen gentile_ of another tribe, adopted by the Delawares, just as they adopted _Mengwe_ for the Iroquois from the Onondaga _Yenkwe_, men (see above, page 14). It is not necessarily connected with Alleghany, which may be pure Algonkin. He says, "Those people called themselves _Talligeu_ or _Talligewi_." (_Indian Nations_ p. 48.) The accent, as he gives it, _Tallige'wi_, shows that the word is, _Talliké_, with the substantive verb termination, so that _Talligewi_ means, "He is a _Talliké_" or, "It is of (belongs to) the Talliké." This appears to me the most probable supposition of any I have quoted, and it reduces our quest to that of a nation who called themselves by a name which, to Lenape ears, would sound like _Talliké_. Such a nation presents itself at once in the Cherokees, who call themselves _Tsa'laki_. Moreover, they fill the requirements in other particulars. Their ancient traditions assign them a residence precisely where the Delaware legends locate the Tallike, to wit, on the upper waters of the Ohio (see above, page 17). Fragments of them continued there until within the historic period, and the persistent hostility between them and the Delawares points to some ancient and important contest. Name, location and legends, therefore, combine to identify the Cherokees or Tsalaki with the Tallike, and this is as much evidence as we can expect to produce in such researches. I can see no reason whatever for Dr. Shea's opinion that the Lenape "in their progress eastward drove out of Ohio the Quappas, called by the Algonkins, Alkanzas or Alligewi, who retreated down the Ohio and Mississippi." (Shea, Notes to Alsop's _Maryland_, p. 118.) The question remains, whether the Tallike were the "Mound Builders." It is not so stated in the WALUM OLUM. The inference rather is that the "Snake people," _Akowini_ or _Akonapi_, dwelt in the river valleys north of the Ohio river, in the area of Western Ohio and Indiana, where the most important earthworks are found--and singularly enough none more remarkable than the immense effigy of the serpent in Adams County, Ohio, which winds its gigantic coils over 700 feet in length on the summit of a bold bluff overlooking Brush Creek. According to the RED SCORE, the Snake people were conquered by the Algonkins long before the contest with the Tallike began. These latter lay between the position then occupied by the Lenape and the eastern territory where they were found by the whites. In other words, the Tallike were on the Upper Ohio and its tributaries, and they had to be driven south before the path across the mountains was open. For this reason they are called _wapawullaton_, "possessing the East," that is, with reference to the then position of the Lenape in southwestern Ohio.