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Let's, look at what you have been told, and what we know, 1. Wacca Babba migrated from either NC or VA to IL via IN. But the Cherokee and their slaves were forced to move to Oklahoma, not IN, and few if any would have been granted permission to leave for IL. 2. Waca Baba does not appear to be a Cherokee name, nor a Cherokee version of another name. Ultimately we don't know where it comes from. It could be African, in which case this was probably not her "official" name in the US, just what her immediate African family called her. 3. Many other families in the north with an African American ancestor, retconned their origin to make them "Cherokee". After all, even the oldest, most establishment families in America might have one or more native Americans in their lineage (real or not). Of course it turns out the founding fathers of some old southern plantation-owning families were African American, but that's something forgotten, not recounted with pride.