Taensa
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The Taensa were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, whose settlements at the time of European contact in the late 17th century were located in present-day Tensas Parish, Louisiana. The
Imagined meeting of La Salle with the Taensa, by artist George Catlin c. 1847
Drawing of the "Natchez Great Sun being carried in a litter", by du Pratz
Pottery showing engraved Plaquemine designs from the Grand Village of the Natchez Site.
The Proto-Natchezan Anna site (1200-1500 CE) showing the temple mound and plaza arrangement of Plaquemine sites
Taensa language
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The Taensa language was spoken by the Taensa people originally of northeastern Louisiana, and later with historical importance in Alabama. Though poorly documented, it was probably a dialect of the Na
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…reside in the temple which also acted as a mortuary house. Early chroniclers de Montigny, Saint-Cosme, and Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz described the Taensa language as being nearly identical with the Natchez language; the missionaries were learning the latter language in their efforts to convert the Natchez and…
Daniel Garrison Brinton, initially positive, later argued the grammar was a hoax.