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Maize
Corn
A wild hog found in southern states.
Razorbacks
A vast, long period of time
Eon
Peace pipe
Calumet
How many soil regions does MS have?
12
A storehouse for grain.
Granaries
Yielding of land to another party.
Land Cession
Requiring clan members to marry outside of the clan.
Exogamic
A low-grade coal.
Lignite
What did the natives call the Mississippi River
The Great River
Soil that was deposited by running water.
Alluvial
A group of Native Americans that included several families with a common ancestry.
Clan
A smaller river or stream that flows into a larger river.
Tributary
The area of land that drains into tributaries and eventually into larger rivers.
Drainage Basin
What word means to Americanize
Assimilation
State and federal policy that authorized the forced removal of thousands of southeastern Indians to the Indian Territory in today’s Oklahoma.
Indian Removal
A man-made lake where water is collected and kept in quantity for use.
Reservoirs
A native american chief.
Mingo
The time in Mississippi from its establishment as an American territory in 1798 to the beginning of the Civil War in 1861.
Antebellum
What percentage of lignite does Mississippi have?
13 %
Tracing the line of descent through the mother rather than the father.
Matrilineal
Windblown dust that accumulates and forms a ridge of bluffs as it approaches higher elevations.
Loess Soil
The commercial production of freshwater animals like catfish and aquatic plants.
Aquaculture
An important ritual among southeastern Indians was held in late August in anticipation of a bountiful harvest.
Green Corn
What was the second-largest Native American tribe in Mississippi?
Choctaw