Cherokee
from obsolete Cherokee tsaraki, earlier form of tsaliki .
wiktionary
Most likely from the Cherokee autonym ᏣᎳᎩ(tsalagi). Derivation from a Choctaw exonym meaning "those who live in caves" (compare chiluk(“cave”)) has also been suggested [1] — the Iroquois term for the Cherokee was Oyata'ge'ronon(“inhabitants of the cave country”) [2] — as has derivation from a Creek term for "person(s) who speak(s) a non-Creek language" (see celokketv(“to speak a non-creek language”)).
Whatever its origin, the ethnonym entered European languages at an early date, perhaps as early as the 1670s; [3] in Spanish, the people are called the Tchalaquei as early as 1755. [4]
etymonline
Cherokee
native North American people, also their Iroquoian language, 1670s, Chorakae, from Cherokee tsaragi.
