BGuthrie Photos: MS -- Natchez Trace Parkway -- Mile 261.8 -- Chickasaw Village Site

MS -- Natchez Trace Parkway -- Mile 261.8 -- Chickasaw Village Site:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NT2618_130527_07.JPG: The English-French Conflict 1700-1763: England and France, after the founding of Louisiana fought four wars for control of North America. The Chickasaw became allies of the British, who used them as a spearhead to oppose French expansion. This tribe, with British help, not only remained independent, but threatened French shipping on the Mississippi. The French conquered or made allies of all the tribes along the Mississippi except for the Chickasaw. They made great efforts to destroy this tribe, sending powerful forces against them in 1736 and 1740 and incited the Choctaw and other tribes to do likewise. The Chickasaw successfully resisted and remained a thorn in the side of France, until she in 1763, lost all her North American possessions.
2. NT2618_130527_13.JPG: The French-Chickasaw War in 1736. The Chickasaw threatened French communications between Louisiana and Canada, and urged the Choctaw to trade with the English. Bienville decided to destroy the Chickasaw tribe. In 1735, he ordered a column of French and Indians led by Pierre D'Artaguette from Illinois to meet him near Tupelo. Bienville, leading a French Army joined by the Choctaws, proceeded via Mobile up the Tombigbee. Arriving at the Chickasaw villages, May 25, 1736, he saw nothing of D'Artaguette. D'Artaguette was dead. Two months earlier the Chickasaw had defeated and killed him and forced his followers to flee. Ignorant of D'Artaguette's defeat, Bienville attacked the fortified village of Ackia, May 26, 1736. Bloodily repulsed, he withdrew to Mobile, leaving the Chickasaw more dangerous than ever.
3. NT2618_130527_21.JPG: A Chickasaw Village: Here once stood an Indian village of several houses and a fort. Summer House: During the summer they lived in rectangular, well-ventilated houses. Winter House: In the winter they lived in round houses with plaster walls. Fort: In times of danger, everybody -- warriors, women, children -- sought shelter in strongly fortified stockades. Original foundations of four of these structures are overlaid with concrete curb on the ground.
4. NT2618_130527_27.JPG: The Chickasaw Nation This tribe, population about 2000, lived in the Chickasaw Old Fields, a small natural prairie near Tupelo, Mississippi. Although their villages occupied an area of less than 20 square miles, the Chickasaw claimed and hunted over a vast region in northern Mississippi, Alabama, western Tennessee and Kentucky. The Chickasaw were closely related to the Choctaw, Creek and Natchez, as well as some the smaller tribes of the Mississippi Valley. De Soto's followers were the first Europeans to see the Chickasaw with whom they fought a bloody battle in 1541. The Chickasaw, after ceding the last of their ancestral lands to the United States, moved in 1837-1847 to Oklahoma to become one of the 5 civilized tribes.
5. NT2618_130527_33.JPG: WILD PLANTS INDIANS USED: Corn was the Chickasaws' staple food: but they found many uses for the native plants growing nearby. With signs along this trail, an Indian boy will tell you about some of their favorites. The trail will add about 15 minutes to your walk back to the parking lot.
6. NT2618_130527_50.JPG: WINTER HOUSE: The Chickasaws built a stout frame of logs and covered it with a layer of oak or hickory splints, six or seven inches of clay and a thick thatch of long grass. The entrance hall curving along the outside wall was low and narrow to impede winds and invading enemies.
7. NT2618_130527_60.JPG: FORT: The fort was an enclosure of stout logs set at an angle sloping inward. Crouched in a trench inside the wall, the Chickasaws shot at attackers through ground-level slits. The fort idea probably was suggested by the British to combat another European "import"; siege tactics.
8. NT2618_130527_71.JPG: SUMMER HOUSE: Trader Adair wrote that the Chickasaws could erect a summer house in one day, using no tools but a hatchet and knife.. A cypress shingle roof, pine or cypress clapboard walls, and a covering of bark held on with lashed-on saplings made a shelter"... the side and gables of which are bullet-proof".
9. NT2618_130527_83.JPG: WINTER WARMTH: Each day, a fire was built on the floor to furnish heat through the night. The British trader, Adair, reported that "While the new fire is burning down, the house, for want of air, is full of heat and smoky darkness; and all this time a number of them lie on their broad bed places with their heads wrapped up".
Description of Subject Matter: Exhibits on Chickasaw village that stood here.
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