page_title: Nikwasi (Cherokee town)
section_title: Further dealings with colonials
hierarchical_section_title: Nikwasi (Cherokee town) / History / Further dealings with colonials
caption_attribution_description: English: Image file downloaded on 01 March 2017 from the Carolina Digital Repository page at https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:9e83fb07-38fb-470b-bd0d-0728be023b77
context_page_description: Nikwasi comes from the Cherokee word for "star", Noquisi, and is the site of the Cherokee town which is first found in colonial records in the early 18th century, but is much older. It covered about 100 acres on the floodplain of the Little Tennessee River in what is now Franklin, North Carolina. Today, an associated platform mound is the only extant feature left of the town.
context_section_description: During the summer of 1761 the Nikwasi townhouse was used as a field hospital by the members of a punitive expedition against native American allies of France during the French-Indian War.  The party, which had razed most of the town in the expedition, was led by James Grant.
  The town was once again leveled September 10, 1776 during the Rutherford Light Horse expedition, when the towns people allied with Great Britain early in the American War for Independence.  Rutherford burned the town and its farmlands to the ground.  After an austere, harsh winter, the town sued for peace the following Spring.
  The town was emptied in 1819 of its native American inhabitants when the townspeople were forced from their lands into the Qualla Boundary by the government.
caption: The Nikwasi Mound as photographed in June, 1963. The ascension ramp is at the left side of the photo.
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