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Citico (also "Settaco", "Sitiku", and similar variations) is a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The site's namesake Cherokee village was the largest of the Overhill towns, housing an estimated Indian population of 1,000 by the mid-18th century. [1]
Muncy–after the Munsee people < Munsee language mənsiw, 'person from Minisink' (minisink meaning 'at the island': mənəs 'island' + -ink locative suffix) + -iw attributive suffix. [98] Nanticoke – From the Nanticoke language, 'Tide water people.' (In reference to themselves) [78] Nemacolin – after the 18th-century Lenape chief Nemacolin.
According to the Tennessee Division of Archaeology Site Survey Record, official site numbers are generally assigned to historic sites only if artifacts and/or historic documentation for that site support a pre–1933 date. Historical sites are included in the following list only if archeological field work has been conducted at the site.
The Tennessee River enters the Benton County area from the south and proceeds northward for nearly 100 miles (160 km) before emptying into the Ohio River. Kentucky Dam, located nearly 80 miles (130 km) downstream from the Eva site, was completed in 1944 and created a lake that spans most of the state from north-to-south.
1920 Map of Fewkes Group. There are five mounds at the Fewkes site. Four of them are located opposite of each other on each side of a level town plaza, and the fifth (smallest) mound is situated on the riverbank directly to the north of mound No. 1, outside the town center.
Toqua (Cherokee: ᏙᏉ, romanized: Toquo) was a prehistoric and historic Native American site in Monroe County, Tennessee, located in the Southeastern Woodlands.Toqua was the site of a substantial ancestral town that thrived during the Mississippian period (1000-1600 CE).
Tennessee placenames of Native American origin (6 P) Pages in category "Native American history of Tennessee" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
Pages in category "Tennessee placenames of Native American origin" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.