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The Natchez revolt, or the Natchez massacre, was an attack by the Natchez Native American people on French colonists near present-day Natchez, Mississippi, on November 28, 1729. The Natchez and French had lived alongside each other in the Louisiana colony for more than a decade prior to the incident, mostly conducting peaceful trade and ...
Marguerite Scypion, also known in court files as Marguerite, (c.1770s – after 1836) was an African-Natchez woman, born into slavery in St. Louis, then located in French Upper Louisiana. She was held first by Joseph Tayon and later by Jean Pierre Chouteau, one of the most powerful men in the city.
Mammy's Cupboard (founded 1940) [1] is a roadside restaurant built in the shape of a mammy archetype, [1] located on US Highway 61 south of Natchez, Mississippi. The woman's skirt holds a dining room and a gift shop. [2] The skirt is made out of bricks, and the earrings are horseshoes. [3] She is holding a serving tray while smiling. [4]
Aerial view of Downtown Natchez, 1932 A view of downtown Natchez. For a short time, the women's school Stanton College in Natchez educated daughters of the white elite. It was located in Stanton Hall, built as a private mansion in 1858. During the early 20th century, the college was a site of negotiation, as daughters of the traditional planter ...
Distribution of the Natchez people and their chiefdoms in 1682. The Natchez (/ ˈ n æ tʃ ɪ z / NATCH-iz, [1] [2] Natchez: [naːʃt͡seh] [3]) are a Native American people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area in the Lower Mississippi Valley, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi, in the United States.
Bras Piqué, Natchez woman who tried to warn the French of her tribe's plans to attack them; Ignatia Broker (1919–1987), Ojibwa writer; Ticasuk Brown (1904-1982), Iñupiaq educator, poet and writer; Vee F. Browne, Navajo author; Buffalo Bird Woman, Hidatsa author; Buffalo Calf Road Woman, Cheyenne cultural hero
Growing tension between the French and the Natchez erupted into violence several times during the 1720s, culminating in a massive Natchez attack on November 29, 1729. [1] They destroyed the entire French settlement, killing nearly all the men and taking hundreds of women and children captive. [2] The Natchez seized and occupied Fort Rosalie.
Tattooed Arm (French: Bras Piqué; died after 1731) was the Female Sun of the Natchez people in the early 18th century.. The Natchez were matrilineal, and while the paramount chief was a man, this title was inherited through his mother, the Female Sun. Tattooed Arm was the mother of the Great Sun (in office from 1728), and the daughter of the previous female sun, "White Woman" (died 1704).