Moytoy was given the title of "Emperor of the Cherokee" by Sir Alexander Cumming, a Scots-Anglo trade envoy in what was then the Province of South Carolina, and is regularly referred to as "King" in official English reports, as this was a familiar term of rank to colonists.
Cumming arranged to take Moytoy and a group of Cherokee to England to meet King George II.
[4] While many modern sources have suggested that it comes from the Tsalagi (Cherokee) word "A-Ma-Do-Ya" and this means "rainmaker," this seems to be a poor translation popularized in unsourced books from the mid-1900s.
Modern sources also claim that "Moytoy" was a Cherokee family name that became a title that was passed down by fathers, but there is no historical evidence of this.
There is a very long white "path" connecting the two ends possibly referring to the great distance that separates the two parties.
It is possible that this is the belt that is mentioned in and that commemorates the treaty between the British and Amatoya Moytoy (A.M.) in 1730 (Articles of Friendship and Commerce).