Grand Village of the Natchez: Mississippi's 17th-Century Site

Grand Village of the Natchez: Mississippi's 17th-Century Site

IntroductionLocated near present-day Natchez, Mississippi, the Grand Village of the Natchez served as the principal political, religious, and ceremonial center of the Natchez Nation during the 17th and early 18th centuries CE. Occupied from approximately 1680 to 1730 CE, the settlement became one of the last great Indigenous ceremonial centers in the Lower Mississippi Valley before European colonization permanently altered Native American societ…