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<< Text Pages >> Cowee Mound - Artificial Mound in United States in The South

Submitted by bat400 on Saturday, 04 November 2006  Page Views: 10801

Pre-ColumbianSite Name: Cowee Mound
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 10.283 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The South Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Franklin, N Carolina
Latitude: 35.264900N  Longitude: 83.4194W
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Artificial Mound and notable pre-contact village in Macon County, North Carolina.
A structural earthwork mound on the Little Tennessee River. Europeans first entering this area in the 1700's found a Cherokee village with a large council house built on this mound.

From its size, shape and prehistoric finds in the area, it is assumed to have been built earlier, during the era of the Mississippian cultures. It is a National Register of Historic Places site.

Cherokee oral tradition describes a journey to what became their traditional eastern lands. Some oral traditions indicate that abandoned mound villages were found by the Cherokee travelers. But whether they migrated to these areas after the collapse of the Mississippian cultures, or were part of that culture, the historic Cherokee were found using earthen mounds as platforms for buildings of importance in their villages.


Note: See the article on the purchase of this site and its preservation as part of Cherokee heritage.
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Re: North Carolina and Council House by TimPrevett on Monday, 06 April 2009
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"a large council house" - I take it this has decidedly different overtones in the US than it does in the UK ;o)
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North Carolina and US Law on Mound Preservation by bat400 on Thursday, 26 April 2007
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When it comes right down to it, the good will of private landowners is often what stands between saving Indian mounds and losing these pieces of ancient history. “There are no legal obligations regarding mounds on private property, as long as the owners don’t disturb any burials that might be there,” said Linda Hall, a state archaeologist based in Asheville.

In the case of Cowee Mound, preservation efforts by the Hall family ensured its survival. The family owned the mound for 175 years until the death of Katherine Hall Porter in 2002. The mound then passed to her husband, James Porter. He and his heirs worked with the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians to make sure that it would be protected.

“Probably most mounds are on private property,” Hall said. “(Cowee Mound) is just so commendable, how the different organizations worked together. It is a great resource for the future.”

North Carolina’s Unmarked Human Burial and Human Skeletal Remains Protection Act requires that anybody “knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe” human skeletal remains are being disturbed notify the county’s medical examiner. If the remains are discovered because of construction or plowing, those activities must cease immediately. Work can’t resume without the state’s go-ahead.

If the remains are archaeologically significant — not a modern skeleton, in other words — the state archaeologist’s office is in charge. State archaeologists have 48 hours to make arrangements with the landowner to either protect or remove the remains. At the end of the 48-hour period, the law states the chief archaeologist “shall have no authority over the remains” and can’t stop the resumption of work on the property.

In this area, the Eastern Band gets notified if state archaeologists determine skeletal remains are Native American. The tribe and state reach an agreement on skeletal analysis and disposition.

That’s about all that governs private landowners. Otherwise, state law leaves it to an individual’s conscience, urging people “to refrain from the excavation or destruction thereof and to forbid such conduct by others.”

No one knows how many Indian mounds exist, or how many have been lost, noted Russell Townsend, tribal historic preservation officer for the Eastern Band. “I don’t know that an accurate count of mounds has ever been found,” he said.

Townsend said the tribe is currently protecting four mounds, plus working to help save more, including Spikebuck Town Mound and Village Site in Hayesville. Like Nikwasi Mound in Franklin, Spikebuck is publicly owned. And the Eastern Band owns and protects Kituwah Mound near Bryson City.

For more, see Smoky Mountain News.
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Cowee mound purchase to preserve Cherokee heritage by bat400 on Saturday, 04 November 2006
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Article submitted by Andy B
Acquisition of the Cowee mound is important to the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians in that it means one of their most important prehistoric sites will be preserved.
It is important to everyone in that it is one more link in the campaign by the Land Trust for the Little Tennessee to preserve the upper Little Tennessee River basin.
Several miles north of Franklin on State Road 28, you can look across the river and view a grassy knoll on the opposite bank.
Unlike the hills behind, it was not molded by the forces of nature, though it is understandable that many would think so. Cowee Mound may or may not have been built by the ancestors of the Cherokee, but by the 18th century it was “the principal commercial and diplomatic center of the ... mountain Cherokee,” according to the Land Trust.

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