Qualla

See also: qualla

English

Proper noun

the Qualla

  1. Territory held as a land trust by the United States government for the federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who reside in western North Carolina.
    • 1998, Laurence French, The Qualla Cherokee Surviving in Two Worlds, page 71:
      It was at this time that the once nearly pure blooded Qualla Cherokees were recognized as having a contingency of black and white mixbloods as well as Cherokee / Catawba mixbloods living among them.

Italian

Etymology

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Proper noun

Qualla m or f by sense

  1. a surname

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