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What has been called the "Trudeau Treasure" was the greatest amount of European trade goods found at any Native American site of this period. The tribe's warriors and their allies attacked a British flotilla that came up the Mississippi River from New Orleans on March 15, 1764 at a bend in the river at Davion's Bluff. [25]
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 ...
At that time, these related groups covered a large region extending along both sides of the Mississippi River in present-day Mississippi and Arkansas, as the expedition would soon learn. [7] Off to one side of the town was the dwelling place of the Curaca (chief). It was situated on a high mound which now served as a fortress.
A unique exhibit of Native American art and artifacts is on display in Hattiesburg. And there's a powwow to celebrate Native American Heritage Month. 'Still not visible:' Events in Mississippi ...
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 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 ...
Columbus Day has been a national holiday since 1937, but in recent years some have advocated to refocus the day on Indigenous People.