Names of Tribes
A mound building people who became a society of hunters after 1400; they were steadfast allies of the French in wars against the Natchez and Chickasaws?
Choctaws
Time when Europeans made contact with Mississippi Tribes - 1540s?
Mississippian Period
A weapon used by Native American tribes that consisted of arrows and bows?
Bow and Arrow
Name for "The Great Spirit"?
Sun
An annual ceremony practiced among various Native American peoples associated with the beginning of the yearly corn harvest?
Green Corn Festival
Who were the Flatheads?
Choctaws
8000 B.C. to 500 B.C.?
Archaic Period
Wandering from place to place?
Nomadic
Belief in more than one God?
Polytheistic
Sacred Choctaw mound in modern-day Winston County?
Nanih Waiya
Smallest of the big three tribes in Mississippi. Located in the Southwest?
Natchez
10,000 B.C. to 8000 B. C.? Time period in which native Americans were thought to have crossed the Siberia land bridge from Asia.
Paleo Period
When Native Americans quit moving and began planting crops and building more permanent structures?
Permanent Settlement
Groups of families who claim a common ancestor?
Clans
Great Chickasaw Chief in 1830s?
Tishomingo
Who were the Bonepickers?
Chickasaw
500 B.C. to 800 A.D.?
Woodland Period
Name for Native American groups who built earthen mounds?
Mound Builders
Constructed buildings, hunted and fought?
Native Men
Build by the Natchez Indians, second largest mound in the US?
Emerald Mound
Native tribe located in the upper Mississippi area; negotiated a treaty for better supplies?
Chickasaw
An animal - much like an elephant - that was hunted during the Paleo Time Period?
Mastodons
The type of lifestyle that was associated with movement (and cause of the movement) in native Americans?
Hunting and Gathering
Planted, harvested the crops, cooked, cleaned and made pottery?
Native Women
Choctaw Chief who helped the Americans during the Creek War?
Pushmataha