How Erie are the Cherokee

The theory of the Erie is eerie

 I wouldn't want to see Lake Erie renamed Lake Cherokee, but I have reason to believe the Erie for whom the lake was named and the Cherokee are, or were, the same people. 

    T'Allegewi is the Lenape Algonquin name for the Erie tribe which flourished in northern Ohio and Indiana from at least 500 BC to when they were exterminated as a people by the Iroq…