Mississippi Studies Chapter 2 Flashcards

What did the southern environment provide for the Indians?

The Indians developed an extensive what?

What was the staple crop of the Indians?

Where did the Indians store their corn?

Why were storage granaries guarded at all costs?

Native agriculture was supplemented by what?

Native Mississippians developed many indigenous ________ and fishing techniques that are still used today.

What was not native to the United States that De Soto brought over from Europe?

What were Spanish soldiers called?

What did De Soto bring to feed his conquistadors?

What was the dominant language of Indians in the Southeast?

The southeastern Indian nation did not have a what language?

The southeast Indians developed a form of written communication called?

Pictography was a system of what?

Mississippi tribes were matrilineal, which means?

The Indians based their social organization on the?

They worshipped many ________ some of whom were believed to be kind and others were believed to be ________.

Their religious beliefs were closely tied to their?

The most important ritual among the southeastern Indians was the?

_________ traditions among the different Indian nations varied widely.

Only the Natchez practiced human _____ among the death of a tribal chief.

The Chickasaw usually bury the dead with their favorite?

The Choctaw first laid the dead on a raised _____ to allow the body to ________.

Specially trained people called _____ ______ remove the flesh from the skeleton before it was buried.

Among Mississippi Indians, ______ ______ and other sporting events were popular.

The most popular sport among Mississippi Indians was?

Most Mississippi tribes were organized by towns and?

Both Choctaw and Chickasaw developed a tribal?

The tribal council was composed of?

The mingos ruled the nation with the advice of?

The rule of law among Mississippi Indians followed custom and?

Important council meetings were usually opened by smoking the?

The three large tribes in Mississippi were?

What did smaller tribes do?

What did small tribes do for protection?

Migration of smaller tribes was sometimes caused by _____ on the smaller tribes by European ______ ______ or by larger tribes that were allied with slave traders.

The first report to a tribe called the _______ was made in 1682 by La Salle during his voyage from the French colonies in Canada down to the Mississippi river.

On the historic voyage, La Salle ____ all the land drained by the Mississippi river for France, naming it in honor of King Louis XVI.

At the top of the Natchez social structure was the?

In the Natchez tribe, the Great Sun was the hereditary ______ of all the tribe.

The Great Sun was the ______ chief but did not have binding authority over the five villages or settlement districts.

Villages were traditionally run by?

Natchez established villages along the?

The Natchez also built several?

The most important sacred mound of the Natchez was called the?

Colonists set out among the Natchez.

The French observed the Natchez's ______ of human sacrifice (when the Great Sun died).

The French tried to persuade the Natchez to abandon their?

The Natchez and French were _______ toward each other.

As the French population _____ and encroachment on ______ farmland and hunting grounds expanded, several tribal chiefs joined the Natchez in an attempt to drive the French from the _______ ______ _____.

In 1729, the Natchez ______ the French at Fort Rosalie, killing about 200 Frenchmen and taking many prisoners.

The next year, the French and their Choctaw allies recaptured Fort Rosalie and killed and captured most of the?

The ______ were the second largest nation among the southeastern Indians.

The Choctaw were the most _______ nation.

The Choctaw Indians were allies with the ______. They usually allied with the?

Who was the first European to encounter the Choctaw Indians?

How did the Choctaw lose their land to the Europeans?

During the colonial period, the ______ were clustered in several villages called long town in North Mississippi and numbered about 4500.

The Chickasaw social and political structure was ______ to the Choctaw.

The Choctaw were more peaceful and ______ than the Chickasaw, who were ______ and _____.

The Chickasaw were ______ allies.

The Chickasaw were actively involved with the English and Indian?

After the ______ attacked Fort Rosalie in 1729, the Chickasaw allowed members of the Natchez nation who escaped to live among them.

For the next several years, ______ officials at New Orleans and Mobile considered launching an attack against the Chickasaw for giving refuge to the Natchez.

The French wanted to stop the Chickasaw from interfering with?

In 1736, the ______ mounted a major offensive against the Chickasaw.

________ traders living among the Chickasaw taught them how to barricade their villages and prepare them for the approaching battle.

Even as ______ of the British, the Chickasaw could not hold back the western expansion of the English colonies from the Atlantic Ocean.

Eventually, the Chickasaw were forced to sell their ancestral lands in Mississippi and move to?

In addition to the three major tribes, there were several _____ ______ or _____ that were located in the territory that is now Mississippi.

In 1699, while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi river along the Gulf Coast, a small party of French explorers encountered the ______ Indians.

The _____ _____, which spoke a dialect of the Siouan language, apparently migrated to the _____ _____ from the Ohio Valley shortly before the French landed at Ship Island in 1699.

The _________ were known as the ____ _________ people.

The ______ who probably spoke the Tunican language numbered about 200 people and were living among the Natchez.

In the Muskogean language, the word _____ means 'people at the source of a stream.'

This is the name given to a small _______ of about 50 people who are closely related in language and culture to the Chickasaw.

A small group of _____ also lived with the ______.

The Koroa was also known as the?

_____ were living in the upper Mississippi Valley during the French period.

What tribe was known as the bread people?

When the European explorers first mentioned the ____ nation in the 1680s, it was located on the lower Yazoo River near the Tunica.

The Tiou spoke what language?

Numbering about 1500 in 1698, the Tunica were the closest and most consistent _____ ____ among the Mississippi Indians.

The _____ _____ was located on the south bank of a small river that flowed into the Mississippi River.

The Yazoo were closely associated with the Koroa and were _____ _____.

Most of the people who _____ to Mississippi came to farm and grow _____.

When the farmers arrived in Mississippi, they found that the Choctaw and Chickasaw _____ much of the fertile soil.

Many white farmers and politicians claimed that the _____ did not use the bountiful land as a creator had intended.

Because the white farmers claimed that they did not use the land, this was the basis for both the state and federal policy known as the?

The official Indian removal policy authorized the _____ _____ of thousands of Indians to Indian territory in what is now eastern Oklahoma.

The first removal of Indians from the southeastern United States began with the _______ and eventually included the Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole from their ancestral lands.

During the long and dangerous trek to the Indian territory in _____, many Indians died along the way.

The journey of the Indians that were forced to move from their homes is the?

Through several _____ _____, Choctaw Indians ceded or sold their land to the United States.

In 1830, they _______ the remaining land in Mississippi for land in Indian territory.

Heads of the Choctaw families who wanted to remain in Mississippi were?

Did the Choctaw receive the 640 acres of land they were promised?

Which Indian families weren't given an opportunity to remain in Mississippi?

What did the Chickasaw do with their land in northern Mississippi?

What did the Chickasaw receive from the sales of their land?