Drawing of The Great Sun being carried.
Natchez Indians Pow-Wow.
There were many roles for the Natchez men, women, and children. For starters, the women had many jobs such as cooking, crafts, harvesting, and raising the children. The women prepared meals such as cornbread, hominy, and soup. The women did crafts such as making baskets, weaving cloth, preparing animal coats, and making clothes. The crops the women harvested were Maize/corn, squash, beans, pumpkins,and potatoes. The women raised children by homeschooling and teaching them.
Moving on to the men’s roles in the Natchez Tribe. The men’s roles were to go hunting, fishing, do crafts like women, build settled homes, being political and religious leaders, fight, and plant crops. The men usually hunted deer, wild turkeys, and buffalo. The men of the tribe went fishing in the nearby streams or rivers. The men also built boats, and made weapons for hunting as their crafts.
The Natchez were a settled tribe so the men would build big, and made for staying in one place houses. The specific type of house the tribe would build are adobe or sometimes referred to Pueblo houses. Adobe clay was made out of a mixture of clay, sand, straw, and emulsified asphalt. This The men of the Natchez Tribe could be religious or political leaders. For example, there was a leader called the Great Sun. The son of the mother’s side would become the next ruler or Great Sun. In addition, the men would also fight in wars. For instance, the Natchez Revolt. The men fought in that massacre. The men additionally planted crops. The plants they cropped were the same crops that the women harvested, Maize/corn, squash, beans, pumpkins, and potatoes. Now for the children’s roles. The children’s jobs or roles were working in the fields with their mother, make baskets, cooking, hunt with the men, and do the men’s chores.
It didn't ever get really cold since they lived in the South, so they spent a lot of time outside. They did things like ceremonies and rituals that celebrated each season, like their Lunar Calendar with 13 months. All of the months in their calendar were called things like Hunting Season, or Nut Gathering Season.
In addition to the natural resources they used in making clothing and homes, the Natchez also used straw and cotton for weaving, husks for baskets, and they used stone, wood, and bone for making weapons and boats.
The most popular game was lacrosse. Other tribes called it different things such as bump hips, kueachu, and little brother of war. It was usually how they settled disagreements. The Natchez tribe also played games like the bowl game, where there are two nuts in a bowl, one side of the nuts are painted, the other half plain. They drop the bowl, and if both of the nuts are on the painted side, that person gets a point. The hand game, usually played by children, is another popular game and this is how you play it: two lines of people stand facing each other, and one side has a rock or stick. The side with the object passes it around and the other side has to guess which person has it. and the ring game.
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The Natchez tribe has had a long and historic past. They are known for having complex chiefdom and being very social with other tribes and even colonists, this allowed them to survive far into French Colonization. This tribe was peaceful with other Native Americans, they were very close to the Cherokee and Muscogee tribes.
In 1699 the Frenchman Pierre Le Moyne AQ described eight villages, out of these villages Natchez was one of them; this is the first known time Natchez people have came across a colonist. On November 29, 1729 the Natchez Revolt occurred this happened when Sieur De Chepart ordered land, so the Natchez planned a massacre, in result, 230 colonists were killed this resulted in the French destroying an innocent tribe.
Since they had complex chiefdom unlike many other tribes they had one of Mississippi's biggest tribal cultures. The Tattooed Serpent was not really known for anything but Frenchman Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz was actually allowed to attend the funeral. Seir De Chepart was a major enemy for ordering land and causing the Natchez Revolt.
The Natchez Tribe was defeated in 1730, most of the survivors were sold into French slavery afterwards. The Natchez Tribe’s history was long and memorable and lasted until 1730.
The Natchez Time in itself no longer exists today. Their history ended in 1730 when the Natchez lost their homeland to the French. The Natchez people dispersed and joined other tribes, including the Chickasaws, Creeks, and Cherokees. Today, many Natchez Indian descendants live in the southern part of the Appalachian Mountain range or in Oklahoma.
Mississippi still acknowledges the homeland of the Natchez people. The Grand Village of the Natchez Indians is a National Historic Landmark that has a museum, a partially restored mound area, a reconstructed Natchez Indian house, and nature trails dedicated to the history of the Natchez people.
With DNA testing and ancestry charts, it is estimated that only about 500 people in the world today are of Natchez descent.
Natchez descendants today