Native American Culture
This system traced family descent through the mother rather than the father.
What is matrilineal?
This crop was the staple food of southeastern Native Americans.
What is maize(corn)
Name the three major Native American Nations in Mississippi.
What are Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw?
This European explorer arrived in the region in1539 and brought domestic hogs with him.
Who was Hernando de Soto?
This Policy forced many Native Americans from their ancestral lands.
What is Indian Removal?
This communication system used pictures and symbols.
What is pictography?
This land mass was used by Native Americans to migrate to North America.
What is the Bering Land Bridge?
Native Mississippians used pictures and symbols to communicate because they did not have this
What is written language?
Native Americans used these structures to store grain for long periods.
What are granaries?
This tribe was known as a fierce group of hunters and warriors and was allied with the English.
Who were the Chicksaw?
The French built this fort near the Natchez landing in1716
Fort Rosalie?
The law was enacted in 1830 and supported the removal of native Americans.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This term describes a farming-based way of life.
What is agrarian?
The dominant language of Indians in the southeast
What is Muskogean?
This was the name of the important harvest ceremony that also marked the beginning of a new year.
What is the Green Corn Ceremony
The fishing technique involved reaching into hollow logs to catch catfish by hand.
What is grabbling?
This tribe was Mississippi's largest agricultural nation.
Who were the Choctaw?
What Native American group attacked and captured Fort Rosalie in 1792?
What are the Natchez?
This 1830 treaty exchanged the Choctaw's remaining Mississippi land for land in Indian Territory.
What is the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek?
This term means a small group of Native Americans.
What is a band?
Fishing techniques used by the natives
nets, sieves, grabbling, muddying
Members of these social groups were required to marry outside their own group.
What are exogamic clans?
Name two crops or foods Native Mississippians gathered or grew.
corn, beans, squash, nuts, berries, sweet potatoes, tomatoes
This tribe was Mississippi's largest agricultural nation.
What were the Natchez?
About how many Frenchmen were killed when Natchez captured Fort Rosalie?
What is about 200?
The Trail of Tears forced Native Americans to travel west to what present-day state
What is Oklahoma?
This term means a Great supply of resources.
What is bounty?
Name three small tribes in Mississippi.
Koroa, Biloxi, Tunica, Pascagoula, Yazoo, Grigra, Acolapissa, Chakchiuma
Why was th clan system important to Native Mississippian communties?
Clans organized people into groups based on common ancestry and helped families work, hunt, fish, and defend their communities together.
What fishing technique involved stirring up mud so fish would swim toward the surface?
What is muddying?
Which tribe defeated Bienville's forces at the Battle of Ackia in 1736?
Who are the Chickasaw?
The Natchez captured the fort, killed about 200 Frenchmen, and took many prisoners on this date
What November 28, 1729?
Name two reasons Native Americans populations declined during the colonial period.
Disease, warfare, European slave trading, and displacement
This term means giving or yielding land to another party.
What is cession?
were very mean to the natives and gave them diseases they weren't immune to
Who are the Spanish?
The peace pipe was used to open important council meetings between nations or with Europeans.
What is the calumet?
Why was maize especially valuable to Native Mississippian communities?
It could be prepared in many ways and stored for long periods.
This Mound in Mississippi was associated with the Natchez.
What is Emerald Mound?
Which European nation did the Chickasaw genarally ally with?
What is England/Britian?
Which tribe ceded more than six million acres through the Treaty of Pontotoc in 1832?
What is the Chickasaw?
This term describes a group that sought protection by joining or moving to a larger tribe.
What is a refugee tribe?
Were interested in spreading Christianity and married Native American women
Who are the French?