morefootnotes date October 2010 Infobox Pre Columbian site name Nikwasi image image size 250px alt caption pushpin map North Carolina map latd 35 latm 11 lats 0 latNS N longd 83 longm 22 longs 0 longEW W map caption Location in North Carolina today mapsize 250 country flag USA region Macon County, North Carolina municipality Franklin, North Carolina culture South Appalachian Mississippian culture , historic period Cherokee first occupied 1000 CE period conquered by abandoned responsible body Private restored by date restored dates excavated archaeological bodies notable archaeologists architectural styles platform mound number of temples Infobox nrhp embed yes name Nequasee nrhp type added November 26, 1980 area convert 18 acre governing body Local refnum 80004598 ref name NRHP cite web url http nrhp.focus.nps.gov natreghome.do?searchtype natreghome title National Register of Historic Places accessdate 2012 04 09 ref Nikwasi also spelled Nequasee, Nequassee, Nucassee, Noucassih, etc. ref name NPS2 cite web title National Park Service Revolutionary War War of 1812 Study url http tps.cr.nps.gov ... year 2003 isbn 0 8078 5457 3 pages 152 153 ref History Scholars believe the platform mound at Nikwasi ..., the English colonist Alexander Cuming called for a council at the town of Nikwasi, which thousands ... forces destroyed the houses and fields of Nikwasi, worried that the people were allied with the French. They used the townhouse on top of Nikwasi Mound as a field hospital. After the troops left, the Cherokee returned and rebuilt the town. In 1776 Nikwasi was destroyed during the American Revolutionary ... and reoccupied the town afterward. By treaties in 1817 and 1819, they ceded the land around Nikwasi to North Carolina . European American settlers were granted 4,000 acres 16 km at the site of Nikwasi ... of the Cherokee 1900, reprint 1995 . External links http www.maconnchistorical.org nikwasiNikwasi ... Itinerary Stop 10 Nikwasi Mound http core.tdar.org document 198110 Archaeological Survey, US 441 ... more details
About the Nancy Sinatra song Sugar Town the television series Sugartown TV series Sugartown was the name of at least three Cherokee towns. In Cherokee language Cherokee , the name was Kulsetsiyi , meaning honey locust place from kulsetsi honey locust and yi locative . The word kulsetsi came to be used for sugar as well, thus the town name was often rendered Sugartown by the English colonists. One Sugartown was located on the Keowee River near Fall Creek, close to present day Salem, South Carolina . It was just upriver from the principal Lower Town of Keowee . A second Sugartown was located on the Cullasaja River close to the mouth of Ellijay Creek, near present day Franklin, North Carolina . The Cullasaja River s name is a rendering of Kulsetsi . This Sugartown was near the principal Middle Town of Nikwasi . A third Sugartown was located on Sugar Creek, a tributary of the Toccoa Ocoee River Taccoa River , near the present day city of Blue Ridge, Georgia . References Mooney, James. Myths of the Cherokee 1900, reprint 1995 . See James Mooney . US hist stub NorthAm native stub Category Cherokee towns ... more details
as Nikwasi or Nucassee, was located at the confluence of Cullasaja River with the Little Tennessee River. The town of Franklin, North Carolina Franklin grew on the former site of Nikwasi town. See ... more details
Infobox person name Moytoy of Tellico, Emperor of the Cherokee image image size caption birth name birth date c. 1687 birth place Tellico death date 1741 death place death cause resting place resting place coordinates residence Great Tellico nationality Cherokee other names title First Beloved Man of the Cherokee successor Amouskositte Moytoy of Tellico d. 1741 ref name gearing cite book first Fred last Gearing year 1962 title Priests and Warriors Social Structures for Cherokee Politics in the 18th Century ref was from Great Tellico . Sir Alexander Cumming, a Scots Anglo trade envoy from the Province of South Carolina , gave him the title Emperor of the Cherokee , although he is regularly referred to as King in official reports. ref cite journal last Grant first Ludovic title Historical Relation of the Facts journal The Journal of Cherokee Studies year 2008 volume XXVI pages 64 ref Moytoy s name in Cherokee was Amo adawehi , or rainmaker. ref Brown, p. 538 ref In 1730 Cumming, a Scottish adventurer with ties to the colonial government of South Carolina, arranged for Moytoy to be crowned emperor over all of the Cherokee towns in a ceremony intended to appeal to Cumming s colonial sponsors. He was crowned in Nikwasi with a headdress refereed to the Crown of Tanasi Tannassy . Cumming arranged to take Moytoy and a group of Cherokee to England to meet George II of Great Britain King George II . Moytoy declined to go, saying that his wife was ill. Attakullakulla Little Carpenter volunteered to go in his place. The Cherokee laid the Crown at King George s feet, along with four scalps. According to some authorities, Moytoy s wife was a woman named Go sa du isga, . After his death, his son, Amouskositte attempted to succeed him as as Emperor . However, by 1753 Kanagatucko Old Hop of Chota Cherokee town Chota in the Overhill Towns had emerged as the dominant leader in the area. ref cite book first Stan last Hoig year 1998 title The Cherokees and Their Chiefs In the Wake of Em ... more details
called the area that is now Franklin, Nikwasi or center of activity . Nikwasi was an ancient and important Cherokee town. The remains of Nikwasi Mound are still visible in downtown Franklin, marking the location of Nikwasi s townhouse. ref http www.cherokeeheritagetrails.org franklin places.html ref ... site. ref http www.maconnchistorical.org nikwasi ref Macon County Veterans Memorial Park The Veterans ... more details
The Cherokee have participated in over forty treaties in the past three hundred years. Pre American Revolution Treaty with South Carolina, 1721 Ceded land between the Santee River Santee , Saluda River Saluda , and Edisto River s to the Province of South Carolina . Treaty of Nikwasi, 1730 Trade agreement with the Province of North Carolina thru Alexander Cumming. Articles of Trade and Friendship, 1730 Established rules for trade between the Cherokee and the English colonies. Signed between seven Cherokee chiefs including Attakullakulla and George I of England . Treaty with South Carolina, 1755 Ceded land between the Wateree River Wateree and Santee Rivers to the Province of South Carolina. Treaty of Long Island on the Holston, 1761 Ended the Anglo Cherokee War with the Colony of Virginia . Treaty of Charlestown, 1762 Ended the Anglo Cherokee War with the Province of South Carolina. Treaty of Johnson Hall, 1768 Guaranteed peace between the Iroquois and the Cherokee. Treaty of Hard Labour, 1768 Ceded land in southwestern Virginia to the British Indian Superintendent, John Stuart. Treaty of Lochaber , 1770 Ceded land in the later states of Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky to the Colony of Virginia. Treaty of Augusta, 1773 Ceded Cherokee claim to convert 2000000 acre km2 to the Colony of Georgia. Treaty with Virginia, 1772 Ceded land in Virginia and eastern Kentucky to the Colony of Virginia. Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, 1775 Ceded claims to the hunting grounds between the Ohio and Cumberland Rivers to the Transylvania Land Company. Pre U.S. Constitution Treaty of DeWitts Corner, 1777 Ceded the lands of the Cherokee Lower Towns to the States of South Carolina and Georgia U.S. state Georgia . Treaty of Fort Henry, 1777 Confirmed the cession of the lands to the Watauga Association with the States of Virginia and North Carolina. Treaty of Long Swamp Creek, 1783 Confirmed the northern boundary of the State of Georgia with the Cherokee, between the latter and t ... more details
troops built six forts in the interior southeast. They visited the Cherokee towns Nikwasi , Estatoe ... , and upper French Broad River . Among several chief towns were Nikwasi and Joara , first recorded ... . In 1730, at Nikwasi , a manipulative Britain, Sir Alexander Cumming, convinced Cherokees to crown ... more details
No footnotes date July 2011 Copy edit date April 2011 This is a timeline of historical events related to the Cherokee Nation, from its earliest appearance in historical records to the latest court cases. It also includes basic content about removal in the United States of other southeastern tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s. Each tribe ceded land by a different treaty with the United States. 1540 1775 1540 Members of Hernando DeSoto s expedition possibly became the first Europeans to encounter the Mississippian culture people, in the towns of Chalaque, Guaqili, Xuala Joara , and Guasili. ref name Antiquity David G. Beck, Robin A. Jr. & Rodning, Christopher B. March 2004 . http antiquity.ac.uk ProjGall moore index.html Joara and Fort San Juan Culture Contact at the Edge of the World , Antiquity Vol 78 No 299 ref Joara was a regional chiefdom established about 1000CE. These villages are believed to have been developed by Catawba tribe Catawba ancestors. 1567 On a lengthy journey into the interior from Mission Santa Elena Santa Elena , to the planned capital of Spanish Florida , Juan Pardo explorer Pardo established the Presidio of San Juan at the Mississippian town of Joara. ref name Antiquity On various occasions in later journeys, Pardo encountered Native Americans at Nikwasi , Tocoa, Keetoowah Kituwa , Itsati, and at other towns. 1634 The Cherokee had migrated into the Southeast from Northern areas around the Great Lakes. They first encountered Kingdom of England English colonists from the Colony of Virginia . 1654 English settlers from Jamestown, Virginia Jamestown , supported by a force of Pamunkey , attacked the Rechahecrian possibly Cherokee village of 600 700 warriors in the vicinity of what would later be Richmond, Virginia and were soundly defeated. 1670 The German trader James Lederer travelled south from the James River Virginia James River in Virginia to the Catawba tribe Catawba territory near the newly established Province of Ca ... more details
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