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((Short description|Native American people originally from the Lower Mississippi Valley))
((Inline citations needed|date=February 2023))
((infobox ethnic group|
|group=Natchez 
|image= [[File:Flag of the Natchez Nation.PNG|300px|]]
|image_caption= [http://www.natcheznation.com/ Natchez Nation of Oklahoma] Flag
|population= est. 6,000((cn|date=March 2024))
|popplace= [[Mississippi]] – Natchez Bluffs, (historical), ((Flag|Louisiana)), ((Flag|Oklahoma)), ((Flag|South Carolina))
|rels=[[Christianity]], [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native]] 
|langs=[[American English|English]], [[Louisiana French|French]], [[Natchez language|Natchez]]
|related= [[Muscogee (Creek)|Muscogee]], [[Cherokee]] 
))
[[File:Natchez map.png|alt=Map of the pre-contact distribution of the Natchez people and their chiefdoms in 1682|thumb|Distribution of the Natchez people and their chiefdoms in 1682]]
The '''Natchez''' (((IPAc-en|ˈ|n|æ|tʃ|ɪ|z)) ((respell|NATCH|iz)),<ref>((cite book|title=Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary |edition=11th |date=2004 |pages=825))</ref><ref>((cite book|title=American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language |edition=5th |date=2011 |pages=1173))</ref> ((IPA-all|naːʃt͡seh|[[Natchez language|Natchez]]:))((sfn|Kimball|2005|p=426))) are a [[Native Americans in the United States|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. They spoke a language [[Language isolate|with no known close relatives]], although it may be very distantly related to the [[Muskogean languages]] of the [[Muscogee|Creek Confederacy]].<ref name=KIMBALL>[https://books.google.com/books?id=nd5o9juMePEC&dq=Geoffrey+Kimball%2C+Native+Languages+of+the+Southeastern+United+States&pg=PA385 Geoffrey Kimball, "Natchez"], in ''Native Languages of the Southeastern United States'', ed. Janine Scancarelli and Heather Kay Hardy, University of Nebraska Press, 2005, pp. 385–453, accessed 9 Dec 2010</ref> An early American geographer noted in his 1797 gazetteer that they were also known as the "Sun Set Indians".<ref>Morse, Jedidiah. (1804). The American gazetteer : exhibiting a full account of the civil divisions, rivers, harbours, Indian tribes, &c. of the American continent, also of the West India and other appendant islands : with a particular description of Louisiana. 2nd edition. Charlestown, Massachusetts: Printed by and for Samuel Etheridge, and for Thomas and Andrews. p. 358. [https://archive.org/stream/ofthecivildivisi00morsrich?ref=ol#page/358/mode/2up The Internet Archive website]</ref>

The Natchez are noted for being the only [[Mississippian culture]] with [[chiefdom|complex chiefdom]] characteristics to have survived long into the period of [[European colonization of the Americas|European colonization]]. Other Mississippian societies in the southeast had generally experienced important transformations shortly after contact with the [[Spanish Empire]] or other newcomers from across the ocean. The Natchez are also noted for having had an unusual social system of nobility classes and [[Exogamy|exogamous marriage]] practices. It was a strongly [[matrilineal]] [[kinship]] society, with descent reckoned along female lines. The paramount chief named the Great Sun was always the son of the Female Sun, whose daughter would be the mother of the next Great Sun. This ensured that the chiefdom stayed under the control of the single Sun lineage. [[Ethnology|Ethnologists]] have not reached consensus on how the Natchez social system originally functioned, and the topic is somewhat controversial((Vague|reason=‘Somewhat’ and ‘controversial’ are subjective. Is there a source for these assertions?|date=November 2022)).

In 1731, after several wars with the [[France|French]], the Natchez were defeated. Most of the captured survivors were shipped to [[Saint-Domingue]] and sold by into [[slavery]]; others took refuge with other tribes, such as the Muskogean [[Chickasaw]] and [[Creek people|Creek]], and the [[Iroquoian]]-speaking [[Cherokee]]. Today, most Natchez families and communities are found in [[Oklahoma]], where Natchez members are enrolled in the federally recognized [[Cherokee Nation|Cherokee]] and [[Muscogee (Creek) Nation|Muscogee (Creek)]] nations in Oklahoma. Two Natchez communities are recognized by the state of [[South Carolina]].

== Prehistoric ==
[[File:Chromesun Photo emerald01.jpg|thumb|Emerald Mound]]

The historic Natchez were preceded in this area by what [[archaeologists]] call the [[indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous]] [[Plaquemine culture]], part of the larger, prehistoric [[Mississippian culture]], which extended throughout the lower Mississippi Valley and its tributaries. Its largest center was at [[Cahokia]] in present-day Illinois near the confluence of the Illinois, Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Its peoples are noted for their hierarchical communities, building complex [[Earthworks (archaeology)|earthworks]] and [[platform mound]] architecture, and intensively cultivating [[maize]].

[[Archaeological]] evidence indicates that people of the Plaquemine culture, an elaboration of the [[Coles Creek culture]], had lived in the Natchez Bluffs region since at least as long ago as 700 [[Common Era|CE]].((sfn|White|1971|p=369)) The Natchez Bluffs are located along the east side of the [[Mississippi River]] in present-day [[Mississippi]]. During the late prehistoric era, around 1500, Plaquemine-culture people occupied territory from the [[Big Black River (Mississippi)|Big Black River]] in the north to about the [[Homochitto River]] in the south. The Plaquemine people built many platform mounds, including [[Emerald Mound site|Emerald Mound]], the second-largest [[pre-Columbian]] structure in North America north of [[Mexico]]. Emerald Mound was an 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.<ref>See the National Park Service web pages [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/mounds/eme.htm Emerald Mound Site] and [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/mounds/gra.htm Grand Village of the Natchez Indians].</ref>

By 1700, the Natchez occupied a territory that covered only an area roughly between Fairchilds Creek and South Fork Coles Creek in the north to St. Catherine's Creek in the south. This area is approximately that of the northern half of present-day [[Adams County, Mississippi]].((sfn|Lorenz|2000|p=143))

== Protohistoric ==
The earliest European account of the Natchez may be from the journals of the Spanish expedition of [[Hernando de Soto (explorer)|Hernando de Soto]]. In 1542 [[List of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition|de Soto's expedition]] encountered a powerful chiefdom located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River. Native sources called it "''[[Quigualtam]]''," after the paramount chief's name. Various scholars have debated if this chiefdom was the [[Emerald Mound|Emerald Phase (1500–1680)]] of the Natchez chiefdom which was in its ascendancy at the time. The encounter was brief and violent; the natives attacked and chased the Spanish with their canoes. No further European contact with the indigenous people in this area occurred for more than 140 years, but they suffered from epidemics of infectious disease carried indirectly by other Native Americans from European traders. These and other intrusions had severely reduced the native populations. By the historic period local power had shifted to the [[Grand Village of the Natchez]].((sfn|Barnett|2007|pp=12–14))

== French contact era ==
[[File:Natchez mound2 HRoe 2004.jpg|thumb|Platform mounds (in the distance) and reconstructed wattle-and-daub house at the [[Grand Village of the Natchez]].]]
[[File:Natchez hut reproduction.jpg|thumb|A modern reconstruction of a traditional Natchez dwelling at the [[Grand Village of the Natchez]] in [[Adams County, Mississippi]]]]
[[File:Natchez pottery HRoe 2004.jpg|thumb|[[Mississippian culture pottery]] from the [[Grand Village of the Natchez]] historic site]]

The French explored the lower Mississippi River in the late 17th century. Initial French-Natchez encounters were mixed. In 1682 [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]] led an expedition down the Mississippi River. The Natchez received the party well, but when the French returned upriver, they were met by a hostile force of about 1,500 Natchez warriors and hurried away. At the time of the next French visit in the 1690s, the Natchez were welcoming and friendly. When [[Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville|Iberville]] visited the Natchez in 1700, he was given a three-day-long peace ceremony, which involved the smoking of a [[ceremonial pipe]] and a feast.<ref name="DuVal">((cite book|url=http://www.uga.edu/colonialseminar/DuVal.pdf |first=Kathleen |last=DuVal |chapter=Interconnectedness and Diversity in 'French Louisiana' |title=Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast |editor1-first=Peter H. |editor1-last=Wood |editor2-first=Gregory A. |editor2-last=Waselkov |editor3-first=M. Thomas |editor3-last=Hatley |location=Lincoln, NE |publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] |edition=2nd |date=2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050531044007/http://www.uga.edu/colonialseminar/DuVal.pdf |archive-date=2005-05-31 ))</ref>

French [[Catholic]] [[missionaries]] from [[Canada]] began to settle among the Natchez in 1698. On the coast of the [[Gulf of Mexico]], French colonists established [[Biloxi, Mississippi|Biloxi]] in 1699 and [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]] in 1702. Early [[Louisiana (New France)|French Louisiana]] was governed by [[Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville]] and his brother [[Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville]], among others. Both brothers played a major role in French-Natchez relations.<ref>For an overview of colonial Louisiana and French-Indian relations, see DuVal, "Interconnectedness and Diversity in 'French Louisiana'", in ''Powhatan’s Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast'', ed. Peter H. Wood, Gregory A. Waselkov, and M. Thomas Hatley, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2nd edition, 2006</ref>

During the early 18th century, according to French sources, the Natchez lived in six to nine village districts with a population estimated at 4,000–6,000 people, and with the ability to muster 1,500 warriors.<ref name="DuVal" /> There were three village districts in the lower St. Catherine's Creek area, called Tioux, Flour, and the Grand Village of the Natchez. Three other village districts were located to the northeast, along upper St. Catherine's Creek and Fairchild's Creek, called White Apple (or White Earth), ''Grigra'', and ''Jenzenaque'' (or Hickories).<ref>Map of historic Natchez village areas in ((harvnb|Lorenz|2000|p=149)).</ref> Historian James Barnett, Jr. described this dispersed leadership structure as developing in the post-epidemic years. It enabled the Natchez to maintain friendly diplomatic relations with European settlers of all nations, but eventually resulted in deeper internal divisions in Natchez society.((citation needed|date=February 2021))

The Natchez [[tribal chief|chief]]s were called Suns, and the [[paramount chief]] was called the Great Sun (Natchez: ''uwahšiL li∙kip''). When the French arrived, the Natchez were ruled by the Great Sun and his brother, [[Tattooed Serpent]], both hereditary positions. The Great Sun had supreme authority over civil affairs, and the Tattooed Serpent oversaw political issues of war and peace, and diplomacy with other nations. Both lived at the Grand Village of the Natchez. Lesser chiefs, mostly from the Sun royal family, presided at other Natchez villages.((sfn|Lorenz|2000|pp=151, 160–161))

[[File:Temple on Mound C and chiefs cabin de Batz.jpg|thumb|Natchez Great Temple on Mound C and the Sun Chiefs cabin, drawn by Alexandre de Batz in the 1730s]]
[[File:Natchez Paramount chief.jpg|thumb|"The [[Tattooed Arm|Great Sun, Paramount Chief of the Natchez People]]" in a 1758 drawing by [[Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz]]]]
[[File:Funeral procession of Serpent Pique du Pratz.jpg|thumb|The funeral procession of ''Tattooed Serpent'' in 1725, with retainers waiting to be sacrificed from a drawing by [[Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz]]]]
The Natchez performed ritual [[human sacrifice]] upon the death of a Sun. When a male Sun died, his wives were expected to accompany him by performing [[ritual suicide]]. Great honor was associated with such sacrifice, and sometimes many Natchez chose to follow a Sun into death. For example, at the death of the Tattooed Serpent in 1725, two of his wives, one of his sisters (nicknamed ((lang|fr|La Glorieuse)) by the French), his first [[warrior]], his doctor, his head servant and the servant's wife, his nurse, and a craftsman of war clubs, all chose to die with him.<ref>((cite book |title=Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut's Tomb |last=La Vere |first=David |publisher=[[University of Oklahoma Press]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqcUbGAhSuEC&q=death+of+tattooed+serpent&pg=PA120 |date=2007-04-01 |isbn=978-0806138138 |pages=119–122))</ref>

Mothers sometimes sacrificed infants in such ceremonies, an act which conferred honor and special status to the mother. Relatives of adults who chose ritual suicide were likewise honored and rose in status.((sfn|White|1971)) The practice of ritual suicide and [[infanticide]] upon the death of a chief existed among other Native Americans living along the lower Mississippi River, such as the [[Taensa]].((sfn|Gallay|2002))

During the late 17th and early 18th centuries, French colonists in the American Southeast initiated a power struggle with those living in the colony of [[Province of Carolina|Carolina]]. Traders from Carolina had established a large trading network among the indigenous peoples of the American Southeast, and by 1700 it stretched west as far as the [[Mississippi River]]. The [[Chickasaw]] tribe, who lived north of the Natchez, were frequently visited by Carolinian traders, thus giving them access to a source of firearms and alcohol. One of the most lucrative trades with Carolinian merchants involved trading in [[Slavery among the indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indian slaves]]. For decades, the Chickasaw conducted slave raids over a wide region in the American Southeast, often being joined by allied Natchez and [[Yazoo people|Yazoo]] warriors. These raiding parties moved over great distances to capture slaves from hostile tribes. In one instance, a 1713 raiding party of Chickasaw, Natchez, and Yazoo raiders attacked the [[Chaouacha people|Chaouachas]], an Indian tribe living near the mouth of the Mississippi River. The grand chief of the Chaouachas was killed; his wife and ten others were carried off to Carolina where they were sold into slavery.((sfn|Gallay|2002|pp=296–297))

Although Carolinian merchants had been operating in the American Southeast for decades, French merchants rapidly established economic networks throughout the region with a few years of their arrival. Most Indian tribes in the region sought to maintain trade links with as many Europeans as possible, encouraging competition and price reductions. By the 1710s, the Natchez had become solidly integrated with the French, trading furs for firearms, blankets, alcohol and other supplies. Despite this, the Natchez kept their markets open for all European merchants. The increasing pace of [[European colonization of the Americas|European colonization]] caused internal tensions to worsen within Natchez society. Several villages, led by the Grand Village of the Natchez and including the villages of Flour and ''Tioux'', openly supported the French. Others, including [[White Apple Village|White Apple]], ''Jenzenaque'', and ''Grigra'', maintained their distance from the French and entertained the possibility of seeking alliances elsewhere. The Great Sun and Tattooed Serpent leaders lived in the Grand Village of the Natchez and were generally friendly toward the French. When violence broke out between the Natchez and the French, the village of White Apple was usually the main source of tensions, as in the Natchez revolt.((sfn|Gallay|2002|pp=298–299))

The French colonial authorities regularly described the Natchez as being ruled with absolute, despotic authority by the Great Sun and Tattooed Serpent. The existence of two opposing factions was well known and documented. The Great Sun and Tattooed Serpent repeatedly pointed out their difficulty in controlling the hostile Natchez. It is likely that the White Apple faction functioned at least semi-independently. Whatever power the family of the Great Sun and Tattooed Serpent did have over outlying villages was reduced in the late 1720s after both died. They were succeeded by relatively young, inexperienced leaders. While the new Great Sun was technically the paramount chief of the Natchez, the chief of White Apple became the eldest Sun chief and had more political clout than the Great Sun. The French continued to hold the Great Sun responsible for the conduct of all Natchez villages. They insisted on dealing with the Natchez as if the people were a unified nation ruled from its capital, the Grand Village of the Natchez.<ref>An overview of the internal division in Natchez society, their role in the conflicts of the region, and the French misunderstandings of Natchez politics can be found in ((harvnb|Lorenz|2000|pp=158–163)).</ref>

During the 1710s and 1720s, French presence and settlement in Natchez territory increased from a handful of traders and missionaries to hundreds of settlers (some 400 French colonists and 200 [[History of slavery in Louisiana|enslaved Africans]]).<ref name="jon">((cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40646360 |first=Jon |last=Parmenter |title=Review: Reviewed Work: ''THE NATCHEZ INDIANS: A History to 1735'' by James F. Barnett, Jr. |journal=Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association |volume=51 |number=1 |date=Winter 2010 |pages=112–114 |jstor=40646360))((subscription required|date=June 2015))</ref> They cultivated several large [[tobacco]] [[Plantation complexes in the Southern United States|plantations]], and maintained a military post at Fort Rosalie. French colonists often intermarried with Natchez women.<ref name="jon"/> At first the Natchez welcomed the French settlers and assigned them land grants, although historians have noted it was unlikely they had the same concept of land ownership as the French.<ref name="DuVal"/>

== Conflicts with the French ==
[[File:Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley - section 14.jpg|thumb|The [[Natchez revolt]] of 1729, where the Natchez slaughtered most of the French soldiers and colonists, with [[Fort Rosalie]] in the background, from a panoramic painting by John Egan, ((Circa|1850))]]

((main|Natchez revolt))
In the 1710s and 1720s, war broke out four times between the French and the Natchez. The French called these the First Natchez War (1716), the Second Natchez War (1722), the Third Natchez War (1723), and the [[Natchez revolt|Natchez Rebellion]] of 1729.

The last of these wars was the largest, in which the Natchez destroyed the French settlements in their territory. In retaliation, the French eventually killed or deported most of the Natchez people. Overshadowing the first three in scale and importance, the 1729 rebellion is sometimes simply called the Natchez War. All four conflicts involved the two opposing factions within the Natchez nation. The Great Sun's faction was generally friendly toward the French. Violence usually began in or was triggered by events among the Natchez of White Apple. In all but the last war, peace was regained largely due to the efforts of Tattooed Serpent of the Grand Village of the Natchez.<ref name="DuVal" />

The First Natchez War of 1716 was precipitated by Natchez raiders from White Apple killing four French traders. Bienville, seeking to resolve the conflict, called a meeting of chiefs at the Grand Village of the Natchez. The assembled chiefs proclaimed their innocence and implicated the war chiefs of White Apple. The [[Choctaw]] assisted the French in fighting the 1716 Natchez War. After the 1716 Natchez War, the French built [[Fort Rosalie]] near the Grand Village of the Natchez. The present-day city of [[Natchez, Mississippi]] developed from the 1716 establishment of Fort Rosalie.

War broke out again in 1722 and 1723. Called the Second and Third Natchez Wars by the French, they were essentially two phases of a single conflict. It began in White Apple, where an argument over a debt resulted in a French trader's killing one of the Natchez villagers. The French commander of Fort Rosalie reprimanded the murderer. Unsatisfied with that response, Natchez warriors of White Apple retaliated by attacking nearby French settlements. Tattooed Serpent's diplomatic efforts helped restore peace. But within a year, Bienville led a French army into Natchez territory, intent on punishing the warriors of White Apple. Bienville demanded the surrender of a White Apple chief as recompense for the earlier Natchez attacks. Under pressure from the French and other Natchez villages, White Apple turned the chief over to the French.<ref name="DuVal" />

== Natchez revolt in 1729 and aftermath ==
[[File:Eugène Delacroix - Les Natchez, 1835 (Metropolitan Museum of Art).jpg|right|thumb|1835 oil painting by [[Eugène Delacroix]] of a Natchez mother and father with their newborn child on the banks of the Mississippi River, inspired by Chateaubriand's fictionalized account of the [[Natchez Revolt|Natchez Wars]] in Louisiana|alt=Oil painting of a pale and handsome man with feathers in his hair sitting on a river bank holding a baby with the mother reclining behind him, breast-bared. A canoe is behind them and a tomahawk is lying on the ground in front of them.]]

((Main|Natchez revolt))
In August 1726, [[Étienne Perier (governor)|Étienne Perier]] arrived as the new governor of Louisiana with orders to further develop the Natchez settlement.((sfn|Gayarré|1854|p=396)) Perier broke with Bienville's policy of diplomatic engagement with the Natchez and other tribes,<ref name="Saadani2008">((cite book|last=Saadani |first=Khalil |title=La Louisiane française dans l'impasse: 1731–1743 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-fp4AAAAMAAJ |year=2008 |publisher=Éditions L'Harmattan |location=Paris, France |language=fr |isbn=978-2-296-05111-9 |page=16 |trans-title=French Louisiana at the Impasse: 1731-1743))</ref><ref>((cite journal|title=The Chickasaw, the English, and the French 1699–1744 |last=Phelps |first=Dawson A. |journal=Tennessee Historical Quarterly |volume=16 |number=2 |date=June 1957 |pages=122–123 |jstor=42621333))</ref> and refused to recognize Native American ownership of their traditional lands.<ref name="Kline2000">((cite report|title=Louisiana: European Explorations and the Louisiana Purchase — A Special Presentation from the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress |last=Klein |first=Michael |date=2000 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]] |location=Washington, D.C. |page=21 |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/collections/louisiana-european-explorations-and-the-louisiana-purchase/images/lapurchase.pdf))</ref> To oversee Fort Rosalie and the Natchez settlement, Perier appointed the Sieur de Chépart (also known as Etcheparre and Chopart), who was described by as "rapacious, haughty, and tyrannical",((sfn|Gayarré|1854|p=396)) abusing soldiers, settlers, and the Natchez alike.<ref name="Dougherty2010">((cite book|last=Dougherty |first=Kevin |title=Weapons of Mississippi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2pMqE2E63XgC&pg=PA25 |year=2010 |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |location=Jackson, Mississippi |isbn=978-1-60473-452-2 |page=25))</ref> Perier and Chépart entered a partnership to develop a large plantation on Natchez land.<ref name="Antebellum 10">((cite book|last=James |first=D. Clayton |title=Antebellum Natchez |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=my5L0Ek-UxUC&pg=PA10 |year=1993 |publisher=LSU Press |location=Baton Rouge, Louisiana |isbn=978-0-8071-1860-3 |page=10))</ref><ref name="Usner 26">((cite book|last=Usner |first=Daniel H. Jr. |title=American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0S6n0VOSXE8C&pg=PA26 |date=1998 |publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] |location=Lincoln, Nebraska |isbn=0-8032-9563-4 |page=26))</ref>

In November 1729, Chépart announced the complete removal of the Natchez from their land in the near future<ref name="Antebellum 10"/> and ordered them to vacate the village of White Apple so that he could use its land for a new [[tobacco]] [[plantation]]. This turned out to be the final affront to the Natchez, and they were unwilling to yield to the French demands. The chiefs of White Apple sent emissaries to potential allies, including the Yazoo, [[Koroa]], [[Illiniwek|Illinois]], Chickasaw, and Choctaw. They also sent messages to the [[Sub-Saharan Africa|African]] [[slaves]] of nearby French plantations, inviting them to join the Natchez in rising up to drive out the French.<ref name="DuVal" />

On November 28, 1729, the Natchez led by Indian chief the Great Sun, attacked and destroyed the entire French settlement at Fort Rosalie, killing between 229 and 285 colonists and taking about 450 women and children captive.<ref name="Antebellum 10"/><ref>((cite book|last=Register |first=James |title=Fort Rosalie, the French at Old Natchez: 1682–1762 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xr08GQAACAAJ |year=1969 |publisher=Mid-South Press |location=Shreveport, Louisiana |pages=102–107))</ref>((sfn|Lawson|2004|p=7))

After the attack on Fort Rosalie, Perier decided that the [[Genocide of indigenous peoples|complete destruction]] of the Natchez was required to ensure the prosperity and safety of the French colony. He secured the neutrality of the Choctaw and engaged in the prosecution of the war of extermination against the Natchez.((sfn|Gayarré|1854|page=442))

The Natchez seized and occupied Fort Rosalie. Retaliation by the French and allied [[Choctaw]] forced the Natchez to evacuate, leaving the fort in ruins. In January 1730, the French attempted to besiege the main fort of the Natchez, but they were driven off. Two days later a force of about 500 Choctaw attacked and captured the fort, killing at least 100 Natchez, and recovered about 50 French captives and 50–100 African slaves. French leaders were delighted, but surprised when the Choctaw demanded ransoms for the captives.<ref name="DuVal" />

[[File:DumontMemoiresLouisianeMap.jpg|thumb|"Carte de Lousiane" from [[Dumont de Montigny]] (1753), ''Mémoires Historiques sur la Louisiane''. Annotated to show paths of d'Artaguette and Bienville in Chickasaw Campaign of 1736]]
The French and Natchez continued to attack each other until 1731. On January 21, 1731, Perier with the troops of the colony and two battalions of marines commanded by his brother, [[Antoine-Alexis Perier de Salvert|Perier de Salvert]], attacked the stronghold of the Natchez at White Apple. On the 24th, the Natchez made propositions of peace and some chiefs met Perier who proposed they enter a cabin that seemed to be deserted, but as soon as they crossed its threshold, they were made prisoners by Perier. On January 25, 45 men, and 450 women and children surrendered and were taken as prisoners, but the rest of the Natchez and their chiefs escaped in the night. The next morning, only two sick men and one woman were found in the fort. Perier burned the fort and on the 28th, the French began their withdrawal.((sfn|Gayarré|1854|pages=447–448)) Perier sold the chiefs Great Sun, the Little Sun, the 45 other male prisoners and the 450 women and children into slavery in [[Saint-Domingue]].((sfn|Gayarré|1854|pages=447–448))((sfn|Lorenz|2000|pp=162–163))

Although significantly weakened by the defeat, the Natchez managed to regroup and make one last attack on the French at [[Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site|Fort St. Jean Baptiste]] in October 1731. With reinforcements from Spain and Native American allies, the French under the fort's commander [[Louis Juchereau de St. Denis]] mounted a counter attack and defeated the Natchez.<ref>((cite journal|title=The End of the Natchez |first=James |last=Mooney |journal=[[American Anthropologist]] |volume=1 |number=3 |date=July 1899 |pages=514–515 |jstor=658815))</ref>

The Natchez revolt expanded into a larger regional conflict with many repercussions. The Yazoo and Koroa Indians allied with the Natchez and suffered the same fate in defeat. The [[Tunica people|Tunica]] were initially reluctant to fight on either side. In the summer of 1730, a large group of Natchez asked for refuge with the Tunica, which was given. During the night, the Natchez turned on their hosts, killing 20 and plundering the town. In return, the Tunica attacked Natchez refugees throughout the 1730s and into the 1740s.<ref name="DuVal" />

The Chickasaw tried to remain neutral, but when groups of Natchez began seeking refuge in 1730, the Chickasaw allied with the refugees against the French. By 1731 the Chickasaw had accepted many refugees. When in 1731 the French demanded the surrender of Natchez living among them, the Chickasaw refused. French-Chickasaw relations rapidly deteriorated, resulting in the [[Chickasaw Wars]]. Some of the Natchez warriors who had found refuge among the Chickasaw joined them in fighting the French. The Natchez Wars and the Chickasaw Wars were also related to French attempts to gain free passage along the Mississippi River. During the 1736 campaign against the Chickasaw, the French demanded again that the Natchez among them be turned over. The Chickasaw, compromising, turned over several Natchez, along with some French prisoners of war.

During the 1730s and 1740s, as the French–Natchez conflict developed into a French–Chickasaw war, the Choctaw fell into internal discord. The rift between pro-French and pro-English factions within the Choctaw nation reached the point of violence and civil war.<ref name="DuVal" />

Louisiana's Africans, both slave and free blacks, were also affected by the Indian wars. The Natchez had encouraged African slaves to join them in rebellion. Most did not, but some did. In January 1730 a group of African slaves fought off a Choctaw attack, giving the Natchez time to regroup in their forts. In June 1731, a group of enslaved [[Bambara people|Bambara]], inspired by the Natchez revolt, attempted to organize a [[Slave rebellion|slave uprising]], but French authorities disputed the [[Samba rebellion]] before they could act. More slaves fought for the French, however, as did some [[free people of color]] (((lang|fr|gens de couleur libres))).<ref name="DuVal" />

Because of the contributions of the free men of color during the Natchez War, the French allowed them to join Louisiana's militias. This gave them important connections into the colonial society, contributing to their achieving an independent social status between the French colonists and slaves. In the 19th century, the free people of color established a relatively large class, especially in New Orleans. Many worked as highly skilled artisans; others became educated; they established businesses and acquired property.<ref name="DuVal" /> Of French and African ancestry, the base of most Louisiana [[Creoles of color]], they chiefly spoke French and practiced Catholicism, while sometimes retaining ties to voodou and African practices.

== Natchez after 1730 ==
After the war of 1729–1731, Natchez society was in flux and the people scattered. Most survivors eventually settled among the [[Muscogee|Creek]] (Muscogee), [[Chickasaw]], or with British colonists in the [[Thirteen Colonies]]. Most of the latter two Natchez groups ended up integrating with the [[Cherokee]].((citation needed|date=February 2021))

The Natchez settled mostly along the [[Hiwassee River]] in North Carolina. The main Natchez town, dating to about 1755, was located near present-day [[Murphy, North Carolina]].((sfn|Mooney|1995|pp=520–521)) Around 1740 a small group of Natchez refugees settled along a creek near the confluence of the [[Tellico River]] and the [[Little Tennessee River]]. The creek became known as Notchy Creek after the Natchez. The settlement was called Natchey Town or ''Natsi-yi'' (Cherokee for "Natchez Place"). It was the birthplace of the Cherokee leader [[Dragging Canoe]], whose mother was Natchez and kidnapped as a young girl. In later years Dragging Canoe's Cherokee father, ''[[Attacullaculla]]'', lived in Natchey Town.((sfn|Brown|1986|p=539)) Most of the Natchez living with the Cherokee accompanied them in the 1830's on the forced [[Indian Removal|removal]], the [[Trail of Tears]] to [[Indian Territory]] (later Oklahoma).

A few remained in North Carolina. Their descendants are part of the federally recognized [[Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians]].((sfn|Mooney|1995|pp=387–388)) Some Cherokee-Natchez were permitted to remain in South Carolina as settlers along with the Kusso, Eastern Band Natchez and the PeeDee. (The state of South Carolina recognized the Natchez-Kusso tribe, Eastern Band Natchez and the PeeDee Tribe.) Most of the balance of Natchez citizens are within the Cherokee Nation (est. 185,000), the Mvskoke Nation, Seminole Nation, Chickasaw Nation, with a few in the modern Choctaw Nation on their respective reservations in Oklahoma; nearly half of the state.

There are significant numbers of Natchez citizens within the federally recognized tribe of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation; approximately 12,000. The Natchez were constituent members of the historic Creek Confederacy and signatories on the 1790 [[Treaty of New York (1790)|Treaty of New York]],<ref>((cite encyclopedia |title=History – 1790 Treaty of New York |url=https://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/topics/history/article/revolution-early-republic-1776-1800/treaty-of-new-york |encyclopedia=New Georgia Encyclopedia |access-date=2020-05-15))</ref>((deadlink|date=April 2023)) 1796 [[Treaty of Colerain]],<ref>((cite encyclopedia|title=History – 1796 Treaty of Colerain |url=https://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/topics/history/article/revolution-early-republic-1776-1800/treaty-of-colerain |encyclopedia=New Georgia Encyclopedia |access-date=2020-05-15))</ref>((deadlink|date=April 2023)) and 1814 [[Treaty of Fort Jackson]].<ref>((cite encyclopedia|title=History – 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson  |url=https://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/topics/history/article/antebellum-era-1801-1860/treaty-of-fort-jackson |encyclopedia=New Georgia Encyclopedia |access-date=2020-05-15))</ref>((deadlink|date=April 2023)) During this time, the Natchez enjoyed signatory status and membership within the Creek Confederacy and established their town near the [[Coosa River]] in [[Talladega County, Alabama]].

== Contemporary nation ==
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Today the primary settlements of the Natchez Nation (''Nvce'' or ''Nahchee''), a treaty tribe, are within the southern halves of the [[Muscogee]] and [[Cherokee Nation]]s in Oklahoma.<ref>((cite journal |last1=Noel |first1=Smyth |title=The Obfuscation of Native American Presence in the French Atlantic: Natchez Indians in Saint Domingue, 1731–1791 |journal=Ethnohistory |date=July 2022 |volume=69 |issue=3 |page=277 |doi=10.1215/00141801-9705904 |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/ethnohistory/article-abstract/69/3/265/316298?casa_token=XovFQlye6AQAAAAA:Da7luYOGdWs_lxvMTGsdW3jYg68yeJEcH5IBJQRETogOr3YgjjqSOMt0sNv37JBLpgUVezuNAA |access-date=15 February 2024))</ref><ref group="Tribal Websites">((cite web |title=About Nvculke Wvlt Tvluen Mvnv Pumpeyv |url=https://www.natcheznation.com/About-Us.html |website=Natchez Nation |publisher=Nvculke Wvlt Tvluen Mvnv Pumpeyv (Natchez Nation) and Este Mvskokulke Momen Hopetvke, Inc. (EMMH) |access-date=2024-02-15))</ref> The nation developed a constitution in 2003, which confirms its long-held traditions of self-government. Approximately 197,000 Natchez are members of the nation.((dubious|date=December 2023)) Membership is based on [[matrilineal]] descent from people listed on the [[Dawes Rolls]] or the updated records of 1973. The nation allows citizens to have more than one tribal affiliation, asking only for volunteer work or donations to support the nation and its programs.<ref>((cite web |title=Natchez Nation Home |url=https://www.natcheznation.com/index.html |website=Natchez Nation |publisher=Nvculke Wvlt Tvluen Mvnv Pumpeyv (Natchez Nation) and Este Mvskokulke Momen Hopetvke, Inc. (EMMH) |access-date=15 February 2024))</ref>

Natchez families are also found as members among the balance of the [[Five Civilized Tribes]]. They are represented as corporations within the [[Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma]] and [[Sac & Fox Nation]].

Small Natchez communities and settlements may be found in and throughout the Southeast and as far north as North Carolina. There are three state-recognized Natchez communities in [[South Carolina]], each of which have independent governments: the Eastern Band Natchez, formerly Natchez-PeeDee; the [[Edisto]] Natchez-Kusso (Four Holes Indian Organization); and the PeeDee Indian Tribe of South Carolina.

The current leadership of the Natchez Nation consists of a Peace Chief (called the "Great Sun"), a War Chief, and four primary [[Clan]] Mothers. Other Natchez Sun leaders have included K.T. "Hutke" Fields (Principal Peace Chief/Great Sun, 1996–),<ref group="Tribal Websites">((cite web |title=About Nvculke Wvlt Tvluen Mvnv Pumpeyv |url=https://www.natcheznation.com/About-Us.html |website=Natchez Nation |publisher=Nvculke Wvlt Tvluen Mvnv Pumpeyv (Natchez Nation) and Este Mvskokulke Momen Hopetvke, Inc. (EMMH) |access-date=2024-02-15))</ref> Eliza Jane Sumpka (Primary Clan Mother), William Harjo LoneFight, Robert M. Riviera (Principal War Chief, 1997), [[Watt Sam]],<ref>((cite web |title=Sam, Watt (1876-1944) |url=https://snaccooperative.org/view/86611488 |website=Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) |publisher=SNAC Cooperative |access-date=15 February 2024))</ref> Archie Sam, White Tobacco Sam, Creek Sam<ref group="Tribal Websites">((cite web |title=About Nvculke Wvlt Tvluen Mvnv Pumpeyv |url=https://www.natcheznation.com/About-Us.html |website=Natchez Nation |publisher=Nvculke Wvlt Tvluen Mvnv Pumpeyv (Natchez Nation) and Este Mvskokulke Momen Hopetvke, Inc. (EMMH) |access-date=2024-02-15))</ref> and others.<ref>((cite web |title=Sam (Family : Sam, Creek : Sam, Watt) - Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) |url=https://snaccooperative.org/view/86612801 |website=Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) |publisher=SNAC Cooperative |access-date=15 February 2024))</ref>

== Language ==
((main|Natchez language))
The [[Natchez language]] is generally considered a [[language isolate]].<ref>"Introduction", in ''Native Languages of the Southeastern United States'', ed. Janine Scancarelli and Heather Kay Hardy, University of Nebraska Press, 2005, p, 6, accessed 9 Dec 2010</ref> As originally proposed by [[John Swanton]] in the early 20th century, some scholars believe that it may be related to the [[Muskogean languages]]. Its two last fluent speakers, [[Watt Sam]] and [[Nancy Raven]], died in 1944 and 1957 respectively. In the 21st century, the Natchez nation is working to revive it as a spoken language among its people.<ref>[http://www.native-languages.org/natchez.htm "Natchez Indian Language"], Native Languages of the Americas, (retrieved 9 December 2010)</ref>

== Descent system ==
The Natchez are noted for having an unusual social system of [[Nobility|noble]] classes and [[Exogamy|exogamous]] marriage. Members of the highest ranking class, called Suns, are thought to have been required to marry only members of the lowest commoner class, called Stinkards or commoners. The Natchez descent system has received a great deal of academic study. Scholars debate how the system functioned before the 1730 diaspora and the topic has generated controversy.<ref>See the section titled "Natchez Descent System" in ((harvnb|Lorenz|2000)).</ref>

Primary source documentation on the pre-1730 Natchez [[kinship and descent]] system is based on a relatively small number of French colonists who recorded information about Natchez social life between about 1700 and 1730. Fragmentary and ambiguous, the French accounts are the only historic accounts of Natchez society before 1730. Natchez [[oral traditions]] have also been studied. The first modern [[ethnographic]] study was done by [[John R. Swanton]] in 1911. Swanton's interpretations and conclusions are still generally accepted and widely cited. Later researchers have addressed various problems with Swanton's interpretation.<ref name="W 370">((harvnb|White|1971|p=370)).</ref> Some researchers have proposed modifications of Swanton's model, while others have rejected most of it.<!-- Who and why? -->

In Swanton's interpretation, [[social status]] among the Natchez was divided into two major categories, commoners and nobility. The nobility was further divided into three [[Social class|classes]] (or [[caste]]s) called Suns, Nobles, and Honored People. Noble exogamy was practiced, meaning that members of the noble classes could marry only commoners. A person's social status and class were determined [[Matrilineality|matrilineally]]. That is, the children of female Suns, Nobles, or Honoreds were born into the status of their mothers. However, the children of male Suns and Nobles did not take on commoner status from their mothers, as noble exogamy and matrilineal descent would appear to dictate, but rather were ranked one class below their fathers. In other words, children of male Suns became Nobles, while children of male Nobles became Honored, according to Swanton.((sfn|Lorenz|2000|p=152))

Many later researchers have focused on the so-called "Natchez Paradox" that Swanton's model is said to engender. The paradox is that if the rules described were followed strictly, over time the commoner class would become depleted, while the lower nobility classes would grow larger.

Three general changes to Swanton's interpretation have been proposed to address the Natchez Paradox.
First, a type of asymmetrical descent may have been practiced in which only male children of male nobility inherited the social class one step below their fathers, while female children of male nobles inherited their mothers' commoner status in matrilineal descent. Related to this is the idea that the Honored category was not a social class but rather an [[Title of honor|honorific title]] given to commoner men and was not [[Heredity|hereditary]].

[[File:Fort Rosalie postcard.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.0|alt=Sepia photographic postcard of 1907 with label, "Fort Rosalie. Scene of terrible Massacre of French by the Natchez Indians, Year 1729."|Postcard of Fort Rosalie, 1907]]
Second, the assimilation of foreign people, such as groups of [[Timucua]], could have at least delayed the Natchez Paradox's effects. Researchers who argue for this idea often couple it with the proposal that the Natchez system of noble exogamy in the early 18th century was a relatively recent development in their society. According to this argument, during the relatively chaotic 16th and 17th centuries, the Natchez maintained their traditional social system by adapting it to new conditions. They assimilated foreigners as commoners and made a new requirement of noble exogamy.

Third, the social classes described by Swanton were not classes or castes, as the terms are generally used in English, but exogamous ranked [[clan]]s or [[Kinship#Lineages, clans, phratries, moieties, and matrimonial sides|moieties]], with patterns of descent common to most Native peoples of the American southeast. Tribes such as the Chickasaw, Creek, Timucua, [[Caddo]], and [[Apalachee]] were organized into ranked clans, with the requirement that one cannot marry within one's clan. Related to this theory is the idea that Honored status was not a class or a clan, but a title. Sun status, likewise, may not have been a class but rather a term for the royal family. If true, Natchez society would have been a moiety of just two groups, commoners and nobles. The requirement of exogamy may have applied to Suns only, rather than the entire nobility.

Some researchers argue that the prohibition against Suns' marrying Suns was largely a matter of [[incest taboo]]. In the early 18th century, all the Suns of a given generation appear to have been related within three degrees of [[consanguinity]] (siblings, first cousins, and second cousins). The custom of Suns' marrying commoners rather than Nobles may have been a preference rather than a requirement. Finally, while Swanton's interpretation claims that Nobles were also required to marry commoners, later researchers have questioned this idea. They have noted in particular a mistranslation of the primary sources and a misreading by Swanton. In other words, it could be that exogamous marriage was required only of Suns, and this requirement may have been mainly a result of the taboo against incest.<ref>An overview of these three general modifications of Swanton's system can be found in ((harvnb|Lorenz|2000|pp=152–155)).</ref>

Lorenz proposes that the entire kinship system was not based on classes, castes, or clans, but rather degrees of genealogical separation from the ruling Sun matriline. Lorenz's interpretation does not include asymmetrical descent or noble exogamy. Rather, a person was a Sun if he or she was within three degrees of [[matrilateral]] separation from the ruling matriline's eldest female Sun (called the "White Woman"). Nobles were those people who were four, five, or six degrees removed from the White Woman, while people seven degrees or more removed were commoners. In this system, the male children of male ruling Suns would naturally descend one "class" per generation, and would be required to marry outside the "class" to avoid incest. The only exception was the case of a male child of a male Noble, who acquired the Honored title by birth.((sfn|Lorenz|2000|pp=157–158))
Many researchers agree that the Honored group was not a noble class but rather a title of prestige given to commoner men for acts of valor in war, or to commoner women who ritually sacrificed their babies upon the death of a Sun as part of funeral and mourning practices.((sfn|Lorenz|2000|p=156)) In addition, people of Honored status could be promoted to Nobles for meritorious deeds.<ref name="W 370"/>

== Ethnobotany ==
The Natchez give [[Potentilla canadensis]] as a drug to those who are believed to be bewitched.<ref>((cite book|last=Swanton |first=John R. |date=1928 |title=Religious Beliefs and Medical Practices of the Creek Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #42 |pages=473–672 (667)))</ref>

== Notable people ==
* [[Tattooed Arm]], 18th-century female Sun (mother of a Great Sun)
* [[Tattooed Serpent]] (died 1725), war chief
* [[William Harjo LoneFight]] (born 1966), president and CEO of American Native Services
* [[Nancy Raven]] (ca. 1850 – 1930s) storyteller, cultural historian, one of the last native speakers of Natchez
* [[Archie Sam]] (1914–1986), traditionalist, scholar, and stomp dance leader
* [[Watt Sam]] (ca. 1857 – 1930s), medicine man, cultural historian, one of the last native speakers of Natchez
* [[Marguerite Scypion]] (ca. 1770s – after 1836), slave in [[Saint Louis, Missouri]] who won a [[freedom suit]] in a state court after a 30-year fight, on the basis of descent from a Natchez mother after the Spanish had banned trade in Indian slaves (1764)
* [[Tommy Wildcat]] (born 1967), traditionalist, flautist, cultural historian

== See also ==
* [[Avoyel]]
* [[List of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition|Hernando de Soto Expedition]]
* [[Taensa]]
* [[History of the Tunica people|Tunica]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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=== Bibliography ===
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* ((cite book |last=Balvay |first=Arnaud |title=La Révolte des Natchez |language=fr |trans-title=The Natchez Rebellion |year=2008 |publisher=Editions du Félin |isbn=978-2-86645-684-9))
* ((cite book | last=Barnett | first=James F. Jr. |title=The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735 |year=2007 |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |isbn=978-1-57806-988-0 |at=Conclusion; and pp. 12-15))
* ((cite book |last=Brown |first=John P. |title=Old Frontiers, The Story of the Cherokee Indians from Earliest Times to the Date of Their Removal to the West, 1838 |orig-year=1938 |edition=Reprint edition, AYER Company |year=1986 |publisher=Southern Publishers |isbn=978-0-405-02830-4))
* ((cite book |last=DuVal |first=Kathleen |editor-first=Gregory A. |editor-last=Waselkov |title=Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast, Revised and Expanded Edition |year=2006 |publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] |isbn=978-0-8032-9861-3 |chapter=Interconnectedness and Diversity in French Louisiana |chapter-url=http://www.uga.edu/colonialseminar/DuVal.pdf))
* ((cite book |last=Gallay |first=Alan |title=The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South 1670–1717 |year=2002 |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |isbn=978-0-300-10193-5))
* ((cite book |last=Kimball |first=Geoffrey |editor1-first=Heather K. |editor1-last=Hardy |editor2-first=Janine |editor2-last=Scancarelli |title=Native languages of the Southeastern United States |year=2005 |publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]] |isbn=978-0-8032-4235-7 |chapter=Natchez))
* ((cite thesis |last=Lawson |first=Charles F. |date=2004 |url=http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04012004-071415/unrestricted/LawsonThesis.pdf |title=Archaeological Examination of Electromagnetic Features: An Example from the French Dwelling Site, a Late Eighteenth Century Plantation Site in Natchez, Adams County, Mississippi |type=Master's Thesis |publisher=[[Florida State University]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071126203506/http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04012004-071415/unrestricted/LawsonThesis.pdf |access-date=21 August 2007|archive-date=2007-11-26 ))
* ((cite book |last=Lorenz |first=Karl G. |editor-first=Bonnie G. |editor-last=McEwan |title=Indians of the Greater Southeast: Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory |year=2000 |publisher=[[University Press of Florida]] |isbn=978-0-8130-1778-5 |chapter=The Natchez of Southwest Mississippi |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/indiansofgreater0000unse))
* ((cite book |last=Mooney |first=James |author-link=James Mooney |title=Myths of the Cherokee |orig-year=1900 |edition=Dover |year=1995 |publisher=[[Dover Publications]] |isbn=978-0-486-28907-6))
* ((cite journal |last1=White |first1=Douglas R. |last2=Murdock |first2=George P. |last3=Scaglion |first3=Richard |author-link1=Douglas R. White |title=Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered |journal=[[Ethnology (journal)|Ethnology]] |volume=X |issue=4 |pages=369–388 |date=October 1971 |url=http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/NatchezPeople.pdf |issn=0014-1828 |access-date=2007-08-15 |doi=10.2307/3773172 |jstor=3773172 |citeseerx=10.1.1.173.4259 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080626001318/http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/NatchezPeople.pdf |archive-date=2008-06-26 |url-status=dead))
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== Further reading ==
* ((cite book |last=Le Page du Pratz |first=Antoine-Simon |title=The History of Louisiana: Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina... 1774 (English) / 1751 (French) |year=1947 |publisher=T. Becket/ J.S.W. Harmonson |location=London/New Orleans |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_o9YBAAAAMAAJ))
* ((cite book |last=Swanton |first=John R. |author-link=John R. Swanton |title=Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico |series=Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 43 |year=1911 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington, D.C.))

== External links ==
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* [http://www.natcheznation.com/ Natchez Nation], website of the Natchez Nation of Oklahoma.
* [http://www.chickasaw.tv/historic-figures/list/the-natchez-nation Natchez Nation Profile and Videos] – Chickasaw.TV
* [http://arkarcheology.uark.edu/indiansofarkansas/index.html?pageName=The%20Natchez%20Indians George Sabo III, "The Natchez Indians"] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223318/http://arkarcheology.uark.edu/indiansofarkansas/index.html?pageName=The%20Natchez%20Indians |date=2016-03-03 )), ''Indians of Arkansas'' Internet Project, University of Arkansas
* [http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/4/the-natchez-indians The Natchez Indians], Mississippi History Now
* [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Louisiana/_Texts/GAYHLA/home.html Charles Gayarré, ''History of Louisiana''], 1867; available at University of Chicago.
* [http://www.concordiasentinel.com/news.php?id=4102 Natchez Wars] at the Concordia Sentinel

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