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A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures (c. 800-1500 CE) This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland-Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally. [1]
The Plaquemine culture was an archaeological culture in the lower Mississippi River Valley in western Mississippi and eastern Louisiana. Good examples of this culture are the Medora site (the type site for the culture and period) in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana , and the Anna , Emerald Mound , Winterville and Holly Bluff sites located in ...
The Piasa (/ ˈ p aɪ. ə s ɔː / PY-ə-saw) or Piasa Bird is a creature from Native American mythology depicted in one of two murals painted by Native Americans on cliffsides above the Mississippi River. Its original location was at the end of a chain of limestone bluffs in Madison County, Illinois, at present-day Alton, Illinois. The ...
Mississippi River and Mississippi Sound – from the Ojibwe 'Great River' [106] Mubby Creek [44] Nanabe Creek [44] Nanih Waiya Creek [112] Natchez Island and Natchez Lake [9] Neshoba County Lake [47] Nita Lake [47] Nonconnah Creek, in Tennessee and slightly within Marshall County, Mississippi [47] [48] Noxapater Creek [48] Noxubee River [113 ...
The Plaquemine culture was a Mississippian culture variant centered on the Mississippi River valley, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to just south of its junction with the Arkansas River, encompassing the Yazoo River basin and Natchez Bluffs in western Mississippi, and the lower Ouachita and Red River valleys in southeastern Arkansas, and eastern Louisiana. [1]
Distribution of the Natchez people and their chiefdoms in 1682. The Natchez (/ ˈ n æ tʃ ɪ z / NATCH-iz, [1] [2] [naːʃt͡seh] [3]) are a Native American people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area in the Lower Mississippi Valley, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi, in the United States.
The Caddoan Mississippian culture was a prehistoric Native American culture considered by archaeologists as a variant of the Mississippian culture. [1] The Caddoan Mississippians covered a large territory, including what is now Eastern Oklahoma , Western Arkansas , Northeast Texas , Southwest Missouri and Northwest Louisiana of the United States.
Mississippi River: Native American significance Allegheny River: US: Pennsylvania, New York: 325 mi (523 km) Ohio River: Native American and early colonial history Cumberland River: US: Kentucky, Tennessee: 688 mi (1,107 km) Allegheny River: Native American and riverboat significance Kanawha River: US: West Virginia: 97 mi (156 km) Allegheny River