Eskippakithiki
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Eskippakithiki
| native_name =
| native_name_lang = Shawnee language
| settlement_type = Indigenous settlement
| coordinates = {{coord|37|56|22.4|N|83|59|51.1|W}}
| established_date = 1718
| extinct_date = 1754
|pushpin_map = USA Kentucky#USA
|pushpin_label_position = left
|pushpin_map_caption = Location within the state of Kentucky
|map_caption = Location within Clark County
}}
Eskippakithiki was a Shawnee village and the last known Native American settlement in the state of Kentucky.{{cite journal |last=Beckner |first=Lucien |title=Eskippakithiki: The Last Indian Town in Kentucky |journal=The Filson Club History Quarterly |volume=6 |issue=4 |date=1932 |pages=355–382}} The name "Eskippakithiki" means "Blue Licks Town" in the Shawnee language.{{cite web |title=Eskippathiki |url=https://www.kyatlas.com/ky-eskippathiki.html |website=Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer |publisher=University of Kentucky |access-date=2025-03-19}} It was located approximately at Indian Old Fields, which was an unincorporated community in Clark County, Kentucky. It was established around 1718 by the Shawnee, which abandoned the settlement at the beginning of the French and Indian War (approximately 1754–55).{{cite book |last=Friend |first=Craig Thompson |title=Kentucke's Frontiers |date=2010 |publisher=Indiana University Press |chapter=Chapter 1: The Indians' Frontiers |pages=15–30}}{{cite book |last=Clark |first=Jerry E. |title=The Shawnee |date=1993 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |chapter=Chapter 2 |pages=24–45}}
Historical marker
A historical marker mentioning Eskippakithiki is located on Kentucky Route 974 at Indian Old Fields (Marker Number 1274). This inscription reads:{{cite web |title=Historical Marker Number 1274. |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=170094 |website=Historical Marker Database}}
Site of Eskippakithiki, sometimes called "Kentake," located on the Warrior's Path. This meeting place for traders and Indian hunters was the last of the Kentucky Indian towns. Occupied by the Shawnees, ca. 1715-1754. John Finley had a store here and traded with the Indians, 1752. Daniel Boone viewed "the beautiful level of Kentucky" from this point on June 7, 1769.
Further reading
- {{cite journal |last=Beckner |first=Lucien |title=Eskippakithiki: The Last Indian Town in Kentucky |journal=The Filson Club History Quarterly |volume=6 |issue=4 |date=1932 |pages=355–382}}
- {{cite book |last=Calloway |first=Colin G. |title=The Shawnees and the War for America |date=2007 |publisher=Viking |pages=45–47}}
- {{cite book |last=Clark |first=Jerry E. |title=The Shawnee |date=1993 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |chapter=Chapter 2 |pages=24–45}}
- {{cite book |last=Friend |first=Craig Thompson |title=Kentucke's Frontiers |date=2010 |publisher=Indiana University Press |chapter=Chapter 1:The Indians' Frontiers |pages=15–30}}
- {{cite book |last1=Harrison |first1=Lowell H. |last2=Klotter |first2=James C. |title=A New History of Kentucky |date=1997 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |pages=23–25}}
- {{cite book |last=Howard |first=James H. |title=Shawnee!: The Ceremonialism of a Native Indian Tribe and Its Cultural Background |year=1981 |publisher=Ohio University Press |location=Athens, Ohio }} This work does not explore Eskippakithiki, but it very useful as a general cultural history of the Shawnee.
- {{cite book |last=Sugden |first=John |title=Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees |date=2000 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |pages=12–15}}
- {{cite book |last=Warren |first=Stephen |title=The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America |date=2014 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |chapter=Chapter 3: Nitarikyk's Slave |pages=50–70}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{cite web |last=Woodring |first=Patsy |title=Indian Old Fields, Home of the Shawnee |date=2001 |pages=5–10 |url=https://smithsgrove.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/indian-old-fields-home-of-the-shawnee.pdf}}
- {{cite web |author=Kentucky Heritage Council |title=A Native History of Kentucky |date=2014 |pages=24–25 |url=https://heritage.ky.gov/Documents/Native_History_KyTeachers.pdf}}
- {{cite web |author=Kentucky Heritage Council |title=Dispelling the Myth: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Indian Life in Kentucky |pages=15–18 |url=https://preservationkentucky.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Dispelling-the-Myth-17th-18th-Century-Indian-Life-in-KY.pdf}}
- {{cite web |author=Kentucky Historical Society |title=Native Americans in Kentucky |date=2008 |pages=30–32 |url=https://www.kyhistory.com/digital/api/collection/LIB/id/588/download}}
{{Clark County, Kentucky}}
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Category:Archaeological sites in Kentucky