Oconaluftee Indian Village
The Oconaluftee Indian Village is a replica of an 18th-century eastern Cherokee community founded in 1952 and located along the Oconaluftee River in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States.Photo: Jan Kronsell, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include New Kituwah Academy and Mountain Farm Museum.
New Kituwah Academy
School
The New Kituwah Academy, also known as the Atse Kituwah Academy, is a private bilingual Cherokee- and English-language immersion school for Cherokee students in kindergarten through sixth grade, located in Cherokee, North Carolina, in the Yellow Hill community of the Qualla Boundary. New Kituwah Academy is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Oconaluftee Indian Village.
Mountain Farm Museum
Museum
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mountain Farm Museum is situated 2 miles northeast of Oconaluftee Indian Village.
Oconaluftee Visitor Center
Tourism office
Photo: Warren LeMay, CC0.
Oconaluftee Visitor Center is a tourism office, which is situated 2 miles northeast of Oconaluftee Indian Village.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cherokee and Ravensford.
Cherokee
Photo: Jan Kronsell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cherokee is a town in the North Carolina Mountains within the Qualla Boundary, the proper name of the Cherokee Indian reserve.
Ravensford
Hamlet
Ravensford is an unincorporated community in Swain County, Western North Carolina. This is within the traditional homeland of the Cherokee people. In a survey and excavation project in the early 21st century, part of the community was found to have archeological resources that were thousands of years old, in addition to more recent historic materials related to the Cherokee people. Ravensford is situated 2 miles northeast of Oconaluftee Indian Village.
Wilmot
Hamlet
Wilmot is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States. Wilmot is located along U.S. Route 74, West of Dillsboro and East of Whittier. Wilmot is situated 6 miles south of Oconaluftee Indian Village.
Oconaluftee Indian Village
- Type: Museum
- Description: replica Native American settlement
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: Charleston Township, Swain, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.48666° or 35° 29′ 12″ northLongitude
-83.32259° or 83° 19′ 21″ westOpen location code
867RFMPG+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 5072099105OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q7076608
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Japanese—“Oconaluftee Indian Village” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Oconaluftee Indian Village”
- Japanese: “オコナルフティー・インディアン村”
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