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Natchez|ˈnætʃɛz, ˈnɑːtʃiː|
Also Nachee, Na'htchi.
[Native name.]
A North American Indian people of Mississippi; a member of this people; also, their language. Also attrib. or as adj.
1775J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 86 In the year 1747, a Nachee warrior told me, that while one of their prophets was using his divine invocation for rain..he was killed with thunder on the spot. 1845Cherokee Advocate (Tahlequah, Okla.) 24 Apr. 4/3 The tradition has been widely recorded, that the dominion of the Natchez once extended even to the Wabash. 1848Trans. Amer. Ethnol. Soc. II. i. 77 (table) Families... Natchez. 1850R. G. Latham Nat. Hist. Varieties Man 340 Disinterred skulls from the Natchez area... Such is a brief notice of the customs of the Natchez. 1890J. G. Frazer Golden Bough II. 382 The chief solemnity of the Natchez, an Indian tribe on the Lower Mississippi, was the Harvest Festival or the Festival of New Fire. 18917th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1885–86 96 The Shetimasha, the language of which is known from a vocabulary to be totally distinct..from the Na'htchi. Ibid. 97 The missionary..affirmed the affinity of the Taensa language to that of the Na'htchi... The Taensa language is considered to be a branch of the Na'htchi. 1949M. Mead Male & Female 396 This was done..by certain women in Natchez Indian society. 1959E. Tunis Indians 82/2 The Natchez were Muskhogeans who lived on the Mississippi River. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Ling. Spring 99 An ‘Eastern Group’ comprising Siouan-Yuchi and Natchez-Muskogian. Ibid. 145 My Natchez informant..told about the great removal. |