Would you like to help support our organization's work with endangered American Indian languages? He states the Cherokee linguistic structure is almost identical to the Hebrew language. Tanoa was the father of all fair-haired children and came from a land called Atia, he wrote. A: No. Riverwind explained that while among his people, the ancient name for God is Yah Yah, among his wife's ancestors, the Cherokee, they called God YoHeWaH, a title with striking similarities to yud-ke-vav-keh. .