Natchez
Choctaw
Chickasaw
Vocabulary
100

This is the name of the Natchez's ceremonial chief.

Who the Great Sun?

100

This was the Choctaw's main source of obtaining food.

What is farming?

What are crops?

100

This is the part of Mississippi where the Chickasaw mainly lived.

What is North Mississippi?

100

The leaders of Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes were called these.

What are mingos?

200

This is the number villages or districts the Natchez had

Five

200

This was the population of choctaw in the Southeast around the year 1700.

What is 20,000?

200

Chickasaw villages were commonly called this.

What is Long Town?

200

Small tribes that needed protection from warring tribes or slave traders by joining large tribes were called these.

What are refugee tribes?

300
Mounds were places to have these kinds of events.

What is a religious ceremony?

What is a village meeting?

What is a community event?

300

Give one the names given to the Choctaw by European settlers.

What are Flat Heads?

What are Long Hairs?

300

The Chickasaw were allies with this European Nation.

What is England?

What us Great Britain?

300

Small tribes moved from one place to another and often allied themselves with larger Indian nations for protection. That movement is called this.

What is migration?

400

This is the name of the mound near Natchez settlements.

What is Emerald Mound?

400

This is the European Nation the Choctaw usually allied themselves with.

What is France?

400

The breed of horse the Chickasaw helped the tribe with tasks. Name TWO. 

What is transportation?

What is farming?

What is hunting?

What is packing?

400

The Choctaw were more peaceful and did more work doing as farmers than the Chickasaw. The term for working as a farmer is known as this.

What is agrarian?

500

This is the fort that Natchez attacked.

What is Fort Rosalie?

500

These are the two brothers named in the Choctaw Origin story.

Who are Chatah and Chickasah?

500

What battle did the Chickasaw win?

The Battle of Ackia

500

The French built an important military post, and the little river town of Natchez became a flourishing commercial center. Give what flourishing means using context clues.

What is successful?

What is thriving?

What is prosperous?