The exact meaning of the word KENTUCKY is not known. The term may have been a Wyandot word meaning "land of tomorrow" or an Iroquoian word that could be translated as "place of meadows." It does not mean "dark and bloody ground." That legend probably came from remarks made by Cherokee chiefs Dragging Canoe and Oconostota at Sycamore Shoals when Richard Henderson bought what rights the Cherokee had to a large part of Kentucky. "There is a dark cloud over that country,"Dragging Canoe reportedly warned, and Oconostota said to Daniel Boone as they parted, "Brother, we have given you a fine land, but I believe you will have much trouble settling it." A NEW HISTORY OF KENTUCKY.Lowell H. Harrison and James C. Klotter,The University Press of Kentucky,1997 p6.