Publisher's Synopsis
The documentary and true history of the Clinch River Valley's Occaneechi Saponi Sissipahaw "Blackfoot" and Cherokee of Southwest VA's Clinch mountains and the settlements of Castlewood, Copper Ridge, Clinch Ridge, and the surrounding counties of Scott, Russell, Tazewell, Wise, Dickenson, Giles, Washington, Lee, Buchanan and West Virginia's McDowell and Wyoming Counties, Kentucky and Tennessee's Newman's Ridge. The Epic tale and story of Gabriel Arthur and Nicketti aka Nikitie as known by her descendant's surnames: Arthur, Boyd, Brooks, Childress, Counts, Kiser, Daily, Floyd, Hess, Hill, Jessee, Johnson, Mullins, Kiser, Lester, McGee, McCall, Sizemore, Skaggs, McDow, Skeen, Stiltner, Yates, and many others who named their daughters Nikaty, Nicktie, Nicketti, Nycytie, Nichatie, Nikitie, Nikati, Nicotie and Nic-kee-tie.
