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<< Our Photo Pages >> Kituwah - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in The South

Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 25 February 2010  Page Views: 5868

Multi-periodSite Name: Kituwah Alternative Name: Kituwah, Keetoowah, Kittowa, Furguson Fields
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 16.365 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Bryson City, North Caroline
Latitude: 35.438802N  Longitude: 83.40106W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
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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5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Kituwah submitted by bat400 : Kituwah. This town site in North Carolina is marked today by the remains of this earthen mound, much reduced from its original size to only about 5 feet high. photo by bat400, Oct 2012. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Village or Settlement in Swain County, North Carolina.
Kituwah is considered the "mother town" of the Cherokee, but the name derives from a Muskogean language word for "sacred fire," implying an origin predating the Cherokee. An earthen mound, the only aspect of the site which can still be seen today, was the location of the town's Council House in the Cherokee era (used for political and religious meetings) but is considered to date back to the Mississippian Culture of approximately 1000 AD.

Archaeological evidence collected by Brett Riggs (University of North Carolina), including gradiometer examination and shovel tests, supports an origin of the mound itself to the Mississippian Era (1000AD). Gradiometer data indicate both hearth locations (including a large hearth at the center of the mound) and multiple constructions of a central building. Finds of human remains indicate that the mound was also used for inclusive burials, perhaps at much later time periods.

Kituwah was so important that the historic Cherokee sometimes call themselves "Ani-Kituwah -a" (the people of Kituwah.) The town was razed by the British in mid 1700's during the Anglo-Cherokee War, but the site continued to be venerated. In the mid 1990's the Eastern Band of the Cherokee purchased the remains of the mound. Years of plowing have reduced the mound to 175 feet round, but only 5 feet high.

The village site and mound are signposted on State Road 19, between the towns of Cherokee and Bryson City.
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Cherokees oppose Duke Energy work near sacred site by bat400 on Thursday, 25 February 2010
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The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is protesting Duke Energy’s construction of an electrical station near the site the tribe considers its birthplace.

Duke Energy is clearing a site overlooking the ancestral home the Cherokee call Kituwah, which archaeologists say was occupied at least 9,000 years ago.

The Swain County site includes a mound 170 feet wide and 5 feet high in a field along the Tuckasegee River and surrounded by mountains. Cherokee tradition says the mound once was the foundation of buildings that held the sacred flame the tribe tended year-round.

“Everything that we know to be Cherokee, our laws, religion, clan system, originated on that spot,” said Tom Belt, coordinator of the Cherokee language program at Western Carolina University. “There are very few people on Earth who can point to where they began, to the inch, to point to the center of that mound and say, ‘This is where our first fire was put down.”’

Tests of the mound found successive layers of council houses built within it, said Brett Riggs, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill archaeologist who has researched the site.

Kituwah was “the very touchstone of Cherokee life,” Riggs said.

But a half-mile away and across the river, Duke Energy in December started clearing a site for a station which can raise or lower voltage in transmission lines. The station will rise 40 feet at its tallest point, and the Charlotte-based utility said it is needed to meet the area’s growing power needs.

Tribal leaders say they weren’t consulted and asked Duke Energy to temporarily stop work. Tribe members worry the station could ruin views from the mound, Eastern Band principal chief Michell Hicks said.

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