Natchez

North Americaother subsistence combinations
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The Natchez were the last Mississippian mound building culture, surviving into the historical period, when they were found settled mainly in southwestern Mississippi. A two-level, quadripartite-ranked society of nobles and commoners with class exogamy and generational rank demotion was headed from Grand Village by the co-chiefs called the Great Sun and the Tattooed Serpent. The Natchez sustained themselves by growing maize and vegetables, and by hunting and fishing. Conflict with French colonists resulted in their disappearance as an independent polity by 1735.

Identifier
Region
  • North America
Subregion
  • Eastern Woodlands
Subsistence Type
  • other subsistence combinations
Samples
Countries
  • United States