THESE FOLKS ORIGINALLY LIVED IN THE BLUFFS NEAR THE CITY OF NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI AND HAD A POPULATION OF ABOUT 6000. THEY MAY HAVE BEEN DISTANTLY RELATED TO THE MUSKOGEAN LANGUAGES. THEY ARE NOTED FOR BEING THE ONLY MISSISSIPPIAN CULTURE WITH COMPLEX CHIEFDOMS CHARACTERISTIC TO HAVE SURVIVED INTO THE TIME WHEN EUROPEAN CAME HERE. THEIR CHIEF WAS NAMED GREAT SUN. AROUND 1730 AFTER TWO WARS THEIR SURVIVORS WERE SOLD INTO FRENCH SLAVERY IN THE WEST INDIES. OTHERS WENT TO LIVE WITH NEIGHBORING TRIBES.
THEIR HISTORIC NATCHEZ WERE CALLED PLAQUEMINE CULTURE, PART OF THE INDIGENOUS PREHISTORIC MISSISSIPPI. THEY LIVED HERE AS LONG AS 700 YEARS BEFORE PRESENT. THEY BUILT MANY PLATFORM MOUNDS, INCLUDING EMERALD MOUND - THE SECOND LARGEST PRE-COLUMBIAN MOUND IN NORTH AMERICA. THEY LIVED IN WATTLE AND DAUB STRUCTURES.
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