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The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians ( Choctaw: Mississippi Chahta) is one of three federally recognized tribes of Choctaw people, and the only one in the state of Mississippi. On April 20, 1945, this tribe was organized under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. Their reservation included lands in Neshoba, Leake, Newton, Scott, Jones ...
Kokomo – named after Kokomo, Indiana, itself of uncertain etymology [39] Kolola Springs [39] Looxahoma [40] Mantachie [41] Mashulaville [42] Michigan City – named after Michigan. Mingo – named after the Chickasaw word for chief, not the Mingo tribe [43] Mississippi City [42] Muskegon – named after Muskegon, Michigan [44]
A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures (c. 800-1500 CE) This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland-Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally.
The history of the state of Mississippi extends back to thousands of years of indigenous peoples. Evidence of their cultures has been found largely through archeological excavations, as well as existing remains of earthwork mounds built thousands of years ago. Native American traditions were kept through oral histories; with Europeans recording ...
The Mississippian culture was a Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600, varying regionally. It was known for building large, earthen platform mounds, and often other shaped mounds as well. [1] [2] It was composed of a series of urban ...
The Dancing Rabbit Creek Treaty Site is a historic Choctaw Native American gathering place in rural Noxubee County, Mississippi.Located near a freshwater spring above the floodplain of Dancing Rabbit Creek in the southwestern part of the county, it was the site of a treaty negotiation between the Choctaw and the federal government in 1830, resulting in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, in ...
Pages in category "Native American tribes in Mississippi" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Yazoo people. The Yazoo were a tribe of the Native American Tunica people historically located along the lower course of the Yazoo River in an area now known as the Mississippi Delta. They were closely related to other Tunica language –speaking peoples, especially the Tunica, Koroa, and possibly the Tioux.