Native Americans food that they mainly grow corn. They grew some veggies like beans,and squash,and the staple crop was maize, or corn. Native america farming was supplied by hunting and fishing.

Food

The language of the natchez is not related to any other indian language in the southeastern united states. The southeastern indian nations didn't have a written language. Although they develop a form of written communication called pictography.

Language

The natchez nation was one important and unusual of all the american indians.Natchez who were not killed or sold into slavery escaped into the chickasaw country in what is now northeast Mississippi.The next year, the french and their choctaw allies recaptured fort Rosalie and killed or captured most of the natchez.

Natchez

The choctaw was the second largest and most agricultural nation among the southeastern indians.Another legend among the choctaw explains their origin in quite a different way. Gradually the choctaw sold or lost their land to the white man first the french, then the spanish, then the english,and the americans.

Choctaw

During the period, the chickasaw were clustered in several villages called long town in north Mississippi and numbered about 4,500. After the natchez attacked fort Rosalie in 1729, the chickasaw allowed members of the natchez who escaped the french counterattack to live among them. Eventually, the chickasaw were forced to sell their ancestral lands in Mississippi and move to Oklahoma.

Chickasaw

The biloxi nation, which had spoken a dialect of the Siouan language apparently migrated to the gulf coast from the Ohio valley shortly before the french landed at ship island in 1699. When a biloxi chief died, he was mourned by his relatives and friends, who brought food to the tribal temple.

Biloxi

Koroa

Koroa warriors killed several soldiers and a french missionary. The Koroa then ruined Fort St Pierre, a french military post on the Yahoo river. The choctaw and chickasaw probably absorbed the Koroa soon after 1731.

Ofogoula

The Ofogoula language was similar to Siouan language spoken by biloxi. The ofogoula later settled near Fort Rosalie, where they remained until 1784. At the time, they moved to the west bank of the Mississippi River just above Pointe Coupee Louisiana.

By 1699, some of the tiou had settled among the natchez. During the natchez attack of Fort Rosalie in 1729, the Tiou supported the natchez. The tribe was virtually ruined by the french in 1731.

Tiou

IndianRemoval

Many white farmers and politicians claimed that the Indians did not use that bountiful land as the Creator had intended. Is claim was the basis for both the state and federal policy known as indian removal.  The forced removal of indians from the southeastern United States began with the choctaw in the early 1830s.

Eventually, the U.S. government forced other large southern tribes, including the Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole, from their ancestral lands. During the long and dangerous way to the Indian Territory, many Indians died along the way. At journey is known as the trail of tears.

The trail of tears

Columbus persuaded the King of Spain to provide him with three ships and crewmen and supplies for his historic voyage in 1492. In the early 1540s, less than fifty years after the discovery of the New World, a Spanish expedition led by Hernando de Soto trekked across the land that would become the state of Mississippi. The place called Mississippi was right in the middle of that rivalry. 

Spanish Exploration

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After de Soto’s failure to find any treasure, the southern woodlands were undisturbed for another 130 years. After spending about a month building rafts to ferry his men and supplies across the great river, de Soto continued westward through Arkansas into east Texas.He was convinced that the world was round and that he could sail west and eventually arrive in the Indies.