http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/10/story-of-wampus-cat.html Stories, quotes and anecdotes. Sun, 19 May 2013 20:12:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/10/story-of-wampus-cat.html#comment-1008463 TJ Morrison Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:21:55 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2009/10/the-story-of-the-wampus-cat/#comment-1008463 I live in Atoka, Oklahoma. I am in McCall Middle School. McCall is the last name of the Mayor that built the school. But anyways, My school’s nickname is the Wampus Cats, so it’s
The Atoka Wampus Cats. Our football team is good, and so is our softball and baseball team. Basketball, mabye a so-so.

]]> http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/10/story-of-wampus-cat.html#comment-172364 Jennifer Robinson Whaley Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:43:38 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2009/10/the-story-of-the-wampus-cat/#comment-172364 who has a drawing or picture of the wampus cat

]]> http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/10/story-of-wampus-cat.html#comment-149984 Jennifer Robinson Whaley Tue, 10 May 2011 23:21:40 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2009/10/the-story-of-the-wampus-cat/#comment-149984 A year ago I got my family tree from my mother who had kept it all in her Bible. I am over three fourths cherokee Indian. My fiance had spoken of a Wampus Cat that he and his cousins had seen on our land as children.We moved to the thirteen acre property last June. I saw something behind our house that i thought was a ghost and another spirit just before dawn.It looked at me as if it were looking into my soul and what I felt was pure rage.When I described what I had seen to my fiance he told me it was the same Wampus Cat he had seen as a child. This is the first time I have looked it up and find this very interesting. Two years ago I gave my three daughters Indian names. My eleven year old named Hannah is the one I gave the name Running Deer. I never knew the story behind all of this and just want to thank you for post.

]]> http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/10/story-of-wampus-cat.html#comment-97879 Janie Kraker Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:37:39 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2009/10/the-story-of-the-wampus-cat/#comment-97879 I live in northern Georgia and comment Dennis for his knowledge and his post. My late father always talked about a Wampus Cat and I was thrilled to find this post. Thank you so much! I travel to western North Carolina frequently and feel that I belong in the Nantahala area. I grieve for what the white man did to the noble Cherokee. As a side note to Tim Hooker’s post….catty-wampus is known to me and my family as “all mixed up” or “out of order” or “out of arrangement”.
I just returned from a wonderful visit to Fontana Village…we went in February and the lake was almost completely drained…we visited Cherokee, Joyce Kilmer, Robbinsville, Lake Junaluska areas. I am infatuated with Horace Kephart as well and have hiked Kephart Prong several times. Simply put, I love the area and feel that I belong there.

]]> http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/10/story-of-wampus-cat.html#comment-29100 Dave Tabler Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:37:11 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2009/10/the-story-of-the-wampus-cat/#comment-29100 You’re right! Thanks for catching that and setting it straight, Dennis.

]]> http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/10/story-of-wampus-cat.html#comment-29000 Dennis Maggard Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:39:29 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2009/10/the-story-of-the-wampus-cat/#comment-29000 While there are towns named Etowah in both North Carolina and Tennessee, the Cherokee village named Etowah was in Bartow County, Georgia, near the Etowah Mounds (which were not built by the Cherokee), and Chota was in Monroe County, Tennessee.

]]> http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/10/story-of-wampus-cat.html#comment-26469 Tim Hooker Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:48:25 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2009/10/the-story-of-the-wampus-cat/#comment-26469 In Southeast Tennessee, I’ve heard it called a Catty-wampus.

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