Internet Resources
- Grand Village of the Natchez IndiansThe Grand Village is a 128-acre site featuring three prehistoric Native American mounds, a reconstructed Natchez Indian house, and museum. Additional features of the site include a nature trail, a “Touch Table” for children, and a Visitor Center with gift shop featuring Native American crafts.
- Natchez: BritannicaBritannic Encyclopedia information regarding the Natchez Indians.
- The Natchez IndiansNational Park Service information on the Natchez Indians.
- Natchez National Historical Park YouTube ChannelOfficial YouTube Channel of Natchez National Historical Park.
Perspectives
The Indian Chief As Tragic Hero
The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze arose for Indian tragedy on the U.S. stage, such as John Augustus Stone's Metamora, and for Indian biographies as national historiography, such as the writings of Benjamin Drake, Francis Parkman, and William Apess. With chapters on seven major resistance struggles, including the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Natchez Massacre of 1729, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero offers an analysis of not only the tragedies and epics written about these leaders, but also their own speeches and strategies, as recorded in archival sources and narratives by adversaries including Hernan Cortes, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, Joseph Doddridge, Robert Rogers, and William Henry Harrison. Sayre concludes that these tragedies and epics about Native resistance laid the foundation for revolutionary culture and historiography in the three modern nations of North America, and that, at odds with the trope of the complaisant "vanishing Indian," these leaders presented colonizers with a cathartic reproof of past injustices.
Native American Legends
Native American legends : southeastern legends--tales from the Natchez, Caddo, Biloxi, Chickasaw, and other nations
Primary Sources & Reference Materials (Log in Required)
- Credo Reference: Natchez PeopleAccess the Credo Reference landing page for the Natchez People. This page includes links to library materials, a mind map, and more
Natchez Mounds and Savage Stereotypes
Historical evidence of Native American mounds has been available for hundreds of years. Detailed descriptions include discussion of a well-developed system of agriculture. Distributed by PBS Distribution.
Source: Films on Demand
Inside the Secret Mounds Of Pre-Historic America
Join Lawrence Fishburne as he uncovers the truth behind the strangest mysteries of all time in History’s Greatest Mysteries: Solved - https://histv.co/HGMS