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Guided Reading: A Place Called Mississippi

The document summarizes information about three Native American tribes - the Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw - who lived in Mississippi. It describes their social structures, alliances, interactions with European powers like the French and British, and how they were impacted as settlers encroached on their lands. It provides details on the Natchez attacking the French at Fort Rosalie, the Choctaw gradually losing their lands, and the eventual forced relocation of the Chickasaw from Mississippi to Oklahoma.

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Guided Reading: A Place Called Mississippi

The document summarizes information about three Native American tribes - the Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw - who lived in Mississippi. It describes their social structures, alliances, interactions with European powers like the French and British, and how they were impacted as settlers encroached on their lands. It provides details on the Natchez attacking the French at Fort Rosalie, the Choctaw gradually losing their lands, and the eventual forced relocation of the Chickasaw from Mississippi to Oklahoma.

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Name ______________________ Class ____________________ Date __________________

GUIDED READING
A Place Called Mississippi
Chapter 2: Native Mississippians

Section 2 Major Tribes: Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw


Directions: Use the information from pages 50 - 56 to complete the following.

1. The three largest and most prominent tribes [in Mississippi] were the

Natchez, the Choctaw, and the Chicksaw .

2. Other small tribes migrate from place to place and often allied

themselves with larger Indian nations for protection.

3. These migrations (moving from one area or country to another) were sometimes

caused by raider on the smaller tribes by European

slave traders , or by larger tribes that were

allied with the slave traders.

4. The first reference to a tribe called the Natchez was made in 1682 by La

Salle [a French explorer] during his voyage from the French colonies in Canada down
the Mississippi River.

5. On that historic voyage, La Salle claimed all the land drained by the

Mississippi River for France and named it Louisiana in honor of Louis

XIV, King of France.

6. At the top of the Natchez social structure was the Great Sun ,

hereditary chief of all of the Natchez.

7. The Great Sun was the ceremonial chief but had not binding authority

over the five villages, or settlement districts.

8. The villages were ruled by their own chiefs.

9. The Natchez had established villages along the loess bluffs

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on the eastern bank of the river [Mississippi].

10. The Natchez also built several sacred mounds, where their

religious ceremonies were held.

11. The most important of those mounds was a large structure, called Emerald Mound

Mound.

12. French colonials who settled among the Natchez observed the to

custom of human sacrifice [when the Great Sun died] and attempted

persuade the Natchez to abandon that tradition.

13. From the beginning of French exploration of the lower Mississippi valley, the

Natchez and the French were Hostile toward

each other.

14. As the French population increased and encroachment on

Indian farmland and hunting grounds expanded, several tribal chiefs

joined with the Natchez in an attempt to drive the French

from the lower Mississippi valley.

15. In 1729, the Natchez attacked the French at Fort Rosalie and killed

about two hundred Frenchmen, and took many prisoners.

16. The next year, the French and their Choctaw allies

recaptured Fort Rosalie and killed and captured most of

the Natchez.

17. The Choctaw were the second largest and most agricultral.

nation among the southeastern Indians.

18. Although few of the Choctaw were allies of the British, especially

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the group led by Chief Red Shoe, they usually allied with the French.

19. Hernando De Soto was probably the first European to

encounter the Choctaw.

20. Gradually the Choctaw sold or lost their land to

the white man first the French, then the Spanish, then the English, and finally the

Americans.

21. During the colonial period, the Chickasaw were clustered in several

villages called Long Town in North Mississippi and numbered about

4,500.

22. Although their [Chickasaw] social and political structure

was similar to the Choctaw, there were significant differences between

the two nations.

23. The Choctaw were more peaceful and

agrarian (working as farmers) than the Chickasaw, who were

hunters and proud warriors.

24. The Chickasaw were English allies; they were actively involved with the

English in the Indian slave trade.

25. After the Natchez attacked Fort Rosalie in 1729, the Chickasaw

allowed members of the Natchez Nation who escaped the

French counterattack to live among them.

26. For the next several years, French officials at New Orleans and Mobile

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considered launching an attack against the Chickasaw for

giving refuge to the Natchez.

27. They also wanted to stop the Chickasaw from interfering with

French trade on the Mississippi River.

28. In 1736, the French mounted a major offensive against the

Chickasaw.

29. British traders living among the Chickasaw taught them

how to barricade their villages and helped them prepare

for the approaching battle.

30. Even as allies of the British, the Chickasaw could not hold back the

western expansion of English colonies from the Atlantic

coast.

31. Eventually, the Chickasaw were forced to sell their

ancestral lands in Mississippi and move to Okalhoma.

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