Paul, Italwa meant "cross roads" in Archaic Muskogee. That makes perfect sense for Etowah Mounds because it was located at the intersection of several major trails and shoals, which blocked any further movement inland by large trade canoes. Italwa now means "town" in Oklahoma Muskogee. As I told Michelle Schohn, what has really given me fits in translating early Muskogean words is that neighboring provinces might have initially spoke different branches of the Muskogean Language Family, but over time shared words and modified words to be more like their neighbors. There were a LOT of dialects in the 1500s and 1600s. Richard T. **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)