Natchezn.adj.

1708 T. Nairne Let. 10 July in Muskhogean Jrnls. (1988) 74 I entertained Intelligence among the yassas, Tassas, and Nochess, Inviteing them to Settle up Cussate river.

1722 D. Coxe Descr. Carolana 9 The River of the Naches..10 or 12 Leagues above its Mouth, divides...The South Branch is Inhabited by the Corroas, the North by the Naches.

1761 tr. P. de Charlevoix Jrnl. Voy. N.-Amer. II. 256 The cabbins of the great village of the Natchez..are in the form of square pavilions.

1798 B. S. Barton New Views Origin Tribes Amer. p. liii A number of families of the Natchez are settled among the Creeks.

1822 A. Hamilton Marriage Rites 296 Among the Natchez, the sovereign family suppose themselves descended from the sun.

1850 R. G. Latham Nat. Hist. Varieties Man 340 Such is a brief notice of the customs of the Natchez.

1908 Athenæum 11 Apr. 447/1 Customary with the Natchez, Muizcas, Pokomames, Yuncas, and Incas of the American continent.

1959 E. Tunis Indians 82/2 The Natchez were Muskhogeans who lived on the Mississippi River.

1998 D. Upton Archit. in U.S. ii. 65 The Natchez..were the last Mississippian mound builders.

1836 Trans. & Coll. Amer. Antiquarian Soc. 2 96 These five languages, the Muskhogee and the Hitchittee, the Uchee, the Natches, and the Alibamon or Coosada are, it is believed, the only ones spoken by the different tribes of the Creek confederacy.

1891 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1885–6 97 The Taensa language is considered to be a branch of the Na'htchi.

1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 99 An ‘Eastern Group’ comprising Siouan-Yuchi and Natchez-Muskogian.

1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 773/2 The isolates included..Tunica, and Natchez... The last two may be distantly related to Muskogean... All are now extinct.

1997 L. Campbell Amer. Indian Langs. 305/2 Natchez is considered an isolate, but some linguists are still sympathetic to the idea of a Natchez-Muskogean relationship.

1744 in J. Swanton Indian Tribes Lower Mississippi Valley (1911) 254 Seven Catawbas had been barbarously murdered by the Notchee Indians, who live among them.

1761 tr. P. de Charlevoix Jrnl. Voy. N.-Amer. II. 252 Had it not been for a Natché Indian..I should have been lost in a whirlpool.

1775 J. 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.

1850 R. G. Latham Nat. Hist. Varieties Man 340 Disinterred skulls from the Natchez area.

1873 Galaxy Aug. 258 Many of the colonists contracted unions with Indian women, especially of the Natchez tribe.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female 396 This was done..by certain women in Natchez Indian society.

1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 145 My Natchez informant..told about the great removal.

1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 387/1 [The trace] ran roughly north and south some 600 miles from the loess bluffs of the Natchez Indians into the game-filled hunting grounds of the Cumberland River Valley.