- Fact 2 - The Southeast Indians were
tribes of hunter gatherers and hunter farmers. Men were in
charge of hunting for food and protecting the camp and the women
were in charge of the land and home.
- Fact 3 - Names of Border States:
Alabama Arkansas Louisiana Tennessee
- Fact 4 - Origin of the name of the
state: Possible based on Chippewa Indian words "mici zibi,"
loosely meaning great river
- Fact 5 - Features of the area: Low,
fertile delta, bluffs, sandy gulf coastal terraces and pine woods and prairie
- Fact 6 - Mississippi
- The Indians of Mississippi were the Biloxi, Capinans,
Chakchiuma, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Choula, Dakota, Grigra, Houma,
Ibitoupa, Koroa, Moctobi, Natchez, Ofo, Okelousa, Pascagoula,
Pensacola, Quapaw, Taposa, Tiou, Tunica and Yazoo Native
Americans tribes
- Fact 7 - The Tunica - Biloxi
Indians inhabited an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico -
Mississippi. They were eventually forced west into Louisiana and
eastern Texas.
- Fact 8 - The Capinan originally inhabited the
area of the Pascagoula River and merged with the Pascagoula
tribe
- Fact 9 - The Chakchiuma were a tribe of the
upper Yazoo River region of what is today the state of
Mississippi. They were allies of the French in the Yazoo War.
Their enemies included the Chickasaw tribe with whom they were
eventually assimulated
- Fact 10 - The Chickasaw warred constantly with
the Choctaw, the Creek, the Cherokee, and the Shawnee tribes.
Their language, Chickasaw, is a Muskogean language closely
related to that of the Choctaw. They were removed to Indian
Territory to Oklahoma in the 1830s.
- Fact 11 - The Choctaw Indians of
central and southern Mississippi and southwest Alabama, Florida
and Louisiana with present-day populations in Mississippi and
southeast Oklahoma. The Choctaw became known as one of the "Five
Civilized Tribes".
- Fact 12 - The Mosopelea also known as the Ofo people,
were a Sioux speaking tribe who originally inhabited Ohio. They
were among the tribes conquered by the Iroquois in the early
1670s, during the Beaver Wars, which resulted in them moving
South but they eventually became extinct and became assimilated
into the Biloxi and Tunica peoples.
- Fact 13 - The Sioux were the largest Indian tribe
and also referred to as the Lakota or Dakota Sioux.
- Fact 14 - The Grigra were a small
tribe under the protection of the Natchez and referred to as the
'Gray Village of the Natchez
- Fact 15 - The Houma inhabited the Louisiana
parishes of East and West Feliciana, Pointe Coupee and the Red
River. They spoke the Muskogean language like other Choctaw
tribes to whom they were related. In 1700, the Houma were in a
border conflict with the Bayougoula over hunting grounds.
- Fact 16 - The Ibitoupa were a small tribe whose name
meant people "at the source of" a stream or river.
- Fact 17 - The Koroa originated in the Mississippi
Valley. The Chickasaw were their enemies who conducted raids
against the Koroa, taking them captive and selling them to
Carolina slave traders. They are now an extinct tribe.
- Fact 18 - The Moctobi lived by the Pascagoula river
near the coast of Mississippi, associated with the Biloxi
- Fact 19 - The Natchez originally lived in the
Natchez Bluffs area, near the present-day city of Natchez,
Mississippi. They spoke the Muskogean language like other
Choctaw tribes of the Creek confederacy. They fought wars with
the French who sold them into slavery following the Natchez
uprising of 1729
- Fact 20 - The Okelousa were semi nomadic who
hunted along the coastline. They were allied with the Washa and
Chawasha tribes and eventually merged with the Houma.
- Fact 20 - The Pascagoula were a tribe indigenous
to the coastal Mississippi on the Pascagoula River. According to
legend the peace-loving tribe walked single file into the
Singing River(now known as the Pascagoula River) because the
local Biloxi tribe were planning to attack.
- Fact 20 - The Pensacola were a
Muskogean-speaking tribe and the original inhabitants of the
Pensacola Bay area
- Fact 20 - The Quapaw Indians are also called the
Arkansas Indians. The state of Arkansas was named after the
Quapaw, who were called Akansea or Akansa, meaning "land of the
downriver people"
- Fact 20 - The Taposa lived near the
Yazoo River, near the Chakchiuma and Chickasaw tribes
- Fact 20 - The Tiou Indians that
lived on the lower Mississippi & Yazoo River
- Fact 20 - The Tunica Indians were hunter farmers
and both the men and women planted and harvested crops such as
corn, beans, and pumpkins
- Fact 20 - The Yazoo located on the
lower course of Yazoo River closely connected to other Tunica
peoples, especially the Tunica, Koroa, and possibly the Tiou
tribes. The Yazoo and Koroa joined with the Natchez in attacking
the French in the Natchez War. The French with their Choctaw
allies retaliated and many of the tribe were sold into slavery
- Fact 20 - The "Five Civilized Tribes" were
so-called because they had assimilated cultural and customs of
the white settlers and colonists. The "Five Civilized Tribes"
were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole
- Fact 20 - 1729 - French settlers at
Fort Rosalie are massacred by Natchez Indians
- 1732 - The French retaliate for the
massacre at Fort Rosalie decimating the Natchez Indians
- 1805 - By the Treaty of Mount
Dexter, the Choctaws sell 4.5 million acres of land to the U.S.
government and this opens up land to white settlement
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