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100
Indians form of writing.
What is pictography?
100

Two tribes sent men into battle on the Confederate side during Civil War.

What is Choctaw and Chickasaw?

100

This tribe was the closet connected with the French and based in North Mississippi.

What is Tunica?

100
Called themselves the "first people" and arrived on the Biloxi coast around 1699.
What is the Biloxis?
100
The 3 main Indian tribes of Mississippi.
What is Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw?
200
Made up of several families with the same origin.
What is a clan?
200
Largest Indian mound in Mississippi, located near Natchez.
What is the Emerald Mound?
200

This is the reason the Indians fought against the Union soldiers during the American Civil War.

What is land cession?

200

Tribe that lived in the upper part of Yazoo River.

What is the Ibitoupa?

200
Most popular game among Mississippi Indians, rough sport.
What is stickball?
300

Tribe that is known as the "red crawfish people"

What is a Chakchiuma

300
In 1716, the French outpost fort built among the Natchez.
What is Fort Rosalie?
300

Evaluate family life in the world of Native Mississipians.

What is matrilineal OR Green Corn Ceremony?

300
Ruled by chiefs, or kings, called "Great Suns."
What is the Natchez?
300
The main crops of Native Americans in Mississippi.
What is corn, squash, beans, peas, melons, and tobacco?
400
Council members, another word for chief.
What is Mingoes?
400
Spanish explorer, discovered the Mississippi River.
What is Hernando De Soto?
400

This tribe has a river and city named after it in our state.

What is Pascagoula?

400

Indian tribe used the language of Tunica in their tribe.

What is the Grigra?

400

The 3 main reasons Indians built mounds.

What is burial mounds, houses for chiefs, and religious ceremonies?

500
The most important ceremony for Indians of Mississippi, took place in late summer before fall harvest and was a happy time for forgiving.
What is the Green Corn Ceremony?
500

This land mass was used by Native Americans to migrate to North America.

What is the Bering Land Bridge?

500

Sacred mound of the Choctaw Indians located in Winston County.

What is Nanih Waiya?

500

Dominant language of Indian in the southwest. 

What is Muskhogean?

500
One similaritiy and one difference of lives of Native Americans and our lives today.
What is farming, clothing, transportation, religion, sports, beliefs, houses, government, schooling, etc.?