Natchez people
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The Natchez were 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
Emerald Mound
Platform mounds (in the distance) and reconstructed wattle-and-daub house at the Grand Village of the Natchez.
A modern reconstruction of a traditional Natchez dwelling at the Grand Village of the Natchez in Adams County, Mississippi
Mississippian culture pottery from the Grand Village of the Natchez historic site
Grand Village of the Natchez
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Grand Village of the Natchez, also known as the Fatherland Site, is a 128.1-acre site encompassing a prehistoric indigenous village and earthwork mounds in present-day south Natchez, Mississippi. The
Natchez people
…important ceremonial center. The Natchez used Emerald Mound in their time, but they abandoned the site before 1700. Their center of power shifted to the Grand Village of the Natchez. The Grand Village had between three and five platform mounds. By 1700, the Natchez occupied a territory that covered only an area roughly between…
Main mound at the Grand Village of the Natchez Site in Natchez, Mississippi
The Temple and Chiefs cabin at the Grand Village of the Natchez
View of Temple Mound from the main plaza