Did Native Americans call their days suns?

Answer 1

The following data is from the archives of the

American Native Press Archives and Sequoyah Research Center

The year was divided into four seasons of three months each: 1. Ulukohisto, Autumn; 2. Kolah, or Konah, winter; 3. Koge, spring; 4. Kogi, summer.

The year was again divided into six seasons: Ulukohusti, embracing the two moons Notatequa and Tulisti; Kolah or Konah, embracing Tuninoti and Uskiye; Nolatihi, including Unolotani and Nagali; Koge, including Anoyi and Nuwoni, and Kogihi, including Anaskoti and Tehaluyi; Kuyo, embracing Kuyoquoni and Kaloni.

The moons they divided into weeks of seven days each. A week was called Unatotaquahi; and three days of the week had different names, viz.: Unatotaquoski, Sabbath; Unatotaquona, Monday, i.e., the day after Sabbath; and Unatotaquitena, the day before the Sabbath. These three names, however, were not always familiar to all the people. When the observance of the Sabbath was neglected, its appropriate name seems to have been lost among many of the common people, who reckoned their weeks by seven days, calling the seventh Uloquatiika (or Ulumlogwattika) the glorious or excellent day. But that Unatotaquoski was the original name for the Sabbath, appears from this, that the real antiquarians, in speaking of the first appointment of the Sabbath by Yihowah, always expressed it by this name.

The other days (nights) of the week, aside from Saturday, Sabbath, and Monday, they reckoned by the ordinal numbers as third, fourth, &c., from the Sabbath, or three of the week, four of the week, &c. The day, consisting of twenty-four hours, extended from twilight to twilight and was called Susohito. Two such days were called Talitsusohia (48). This day was divided between the light and the darkness; that part including the light was called Unotaquatta, the whole period of light. Two such days were Tutisutotaqutta. The other part, including the whole of the darkness, was called Ulitsotoquotta. Two such nights were called Tutitsulitsutaquotta. The 24 hours again divided into Ika, da, and Sunoyi, night.

These were again subdivided into 1. ----- [sic] sundown; 2.Ikaloke, between sundown and dusk; 3. Alitoska, twilight; 4.Uwohitsita, from the commencement of darkness till 9 or 10 o'clock; 5. Sunoyitlustoti, from 9 or 10 o'clock till midnight; 6. Sunoyi, midnight (the middle syllable strongly accented); 7 ----- [sic]; 8. Ukitsakeyi, cock-crowing and thence till daybreak, i.e., white light springing or rising up; 10. Ikaatiha, dawn; 11----- [sic]; 12. Tikalukga, sunrise; 13. Sunalestoti, the time from sunrise till the middle of the forenoon; 14. Ulutsitiika, near the middle of the day; 15. Ika, (strong accent on the first syllable), noon; 16. Itluistoti, shortly after noon, that is , a period from 12, or noon, till probably about the middle of the afternoon; 17. Usohiyeyi, a period commencing at the close of the above, and extending till near sunset; 18. Tsihnawia, or Tsiunawo, a short period before sunset, when the rays of that planet have lost their force, and the air has become cool.

In short, the Cherokees called their days "moons" not "suns.