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Distribution of the Natchez people and their chiefdoms in 1682. The Natchez (/ ˈ n æ tʃ ɪ z / NATCH-iz, [1] [2] Natchez: [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.
When he reached the Pacific coast, Moncacht-Apé heard Native oral histories that referred to an ancient land bridge from Asia. [2] Carte de la Louisiane, or Map of Louisiana, Histoire de la Louisiane (1757) Le Page lived at Natchez from 1720 to 1728 under the colonization scheme organized by John Law and the Company of the Indies. His ...
The Natchez are a Native American people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area. The present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi developed in their former territory. By the mid-eighteenth century, the Natchez people were defeated by French colonists and dispersed from there.
There was limited contact between North American people and the outside world before 1492. Several theoretical contacts have been proposed, but the earliest physical evidence comes from the Norse or Vikings. Norse captain Leif Ericson is believed to have reached the Island of Newfoundland circa 1000 AD. [3] In 1492 Columbus reached land in the ...
Andrew Jackson's flatboats steered from Stones River to the Cumberland River to the Ohio River to the Mississippi River, and thence to Natchez (Map: Shannon1) Before colonization and settlement, the land that came to be known as the Natchez District was the domain of Indigenous communities including the Houmas, the Koroas, the Natchez, and the ...
The term "civilized tribes" was adopted to distinguish the Five Tribes from other Native American tribes that were described as "wild" or "savage". [11] [12] Texts written by non-indigenous scholars and writers have used words like "savage" and "wild" to identify Indian groups that retained their traditional cultural practices after European contact.
It became known by the Europeans as the "Natchez War" or Natchez Rebellion. The Indians destroyed the French colony at Natchez and other settlements in the area. On November 29, 1729, the Natchez Indians killed a total of 229 French colonists: 138 men, 35 women, and 56 children (the largest death toll by an Indian attack in Mississippi's history).
He left to join the Natchez in 1790, [23] and his mission to the Taensa was taken over by Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme. Along with other native peoples of the lower Mississippi River, the Taensa were subject to slave raids and epidemics of European diseases such as smallpox during this time period. As the population of the Taensa ...