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Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 29 August 2012  Page Views: 3642

Multi-periodSite Name: Grand Village of Natchez Indians Alternative Name: Fatherland Plantation, 22-Ad-501
Country: United States Region: The South Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Natchez, MS
Latitude: 31.523000N  Longitude: 91.38W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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bat400 visited on 1st Oct 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Interesting site for a short visit. The mounds are reconstructions based on the footprints discovered during excavations. And the layout tells you something about the size of the village. The small museum is worth a visit, as is a trip to the huge Emerald Mound, outside of Natchez. A comparison of the collossal Emerald Mound ceremonial site to this modest one, seemed to me to tell a lot about the devastation caused by the introduction of "Old World" disease to the Americas. Admision to the site is free but a donation is suggested.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians
Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by bat400 : View of the Mound of the Great Sun (left), the plaza, and the Temple Mound (right). Photo by bat400, Oct 2011. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village in Adams County, Mississippi.
Village location and three earthwork mounds built on the loess bluffs on the east side of the Mississippi River. The mound sites were much reduced by modern agriculture, and obscured by periodic floods and erosion of nearby St. Cathrine's Creek. However, excavations beginning in the 1930's revealed their footprints and the locations of numerous ceremonial and residential buildings.

The site was built in separate stages around 1200AD, mid 14th C, and early 17th C. The earliest construction is associated with the Plaquemine culture, part of the broader Mississippian culture. They were an agricultural society found in portions of what are now Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. They are known by their specific ceramic styles and more general traits of wattle and daub housing, village sites with central plazas, and ceremonial earthwork mound centers.

During the excavations in the 1930's, it was realized that the "Fatherland Plantation" site was the historic "Grand Village of the Natchez" visited by LaSalle's 1682 expedition down the Mississippi River. At the time of that expedition the "Natchez" were using this village as their ceremonial center after having abandoned the much larger Emerald Mound center. The Natchez were a confederation of autonomous villages, which appear to have reformed following the chaos caused by European diseases introduced by the DeSoto expedition in the 1540's, and the further disruption of an English colonial slave trade of native people centered farther east on the Carolina coast.

The descriptions of the Natchez society by the early French inform much of what has been deduced and hypothesized based on the archaeological record for all Mississippian cultures in the American southeast and Mississippi basin. The Natchez had a hereditary and, at that time, a largely ceremonial leader "the Great Sun", who lived in a large residence on a platform mound at the east end on the village plaza. A temple containing a charnal house and the remains of previous "Suns" was built on a platform mound at the western end of the plaza.

The competing interests of the French and English in the Mississippi Valley brought the Natchez into armed conflict with the French. In 1715 the first of several wars broke out. Many of the Natchez, including the last of the "Great Suns" were eventually captured and sold into slavery, shipped to French holdings in the West Indies. Other remnants of the Natchez people joined the historic tribes of the Chickasaws and Creeks.

The village site is maintained and protected by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The mounds seen today are reconstructions over the sites of the excavated mounds. Several reconstructions of buildings are based on historic descriptions. The site is used as a public park for the city of Natchez and is the site of an annual Powwow.

The location given is general for the site. A small museum is located on the site, adjacent to a car park,

National Historic Landmark.
National Register of Historic Places. .

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.

Normal hours are 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 1:30 – 5 p.m. Sunday.
Admission: free

400 Jefferson Davis Boulevard
Natchez, MS 39120
tel (601) 446-6502
fax (601) 446-6503
email info@natchezgrandvillage.com

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by bat400 : Reconstructions of Natchez house and granary from the time of first contact with the Spanish and French (16th-17th C). Photo by bat400, Oct 2011. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grand Village of Natchez Indians
Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by AKFisher : Photo courtesy Dr Greg Little, author of the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Native American Indian Mounds & Earthworks (2016). The 1732 depiction is believed to be accurate for this site. Some of the temples and chief's houses were 2 stories, quite large. Cahokia had a structure of 3,000 sq ft with the sides 100 x nearly 30 ft. The walls were supposedly made of vertical logs nearly 50 ft high. T... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Indian Mound Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, Natchez, MS Image copyright: hjm81631, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Grand Village of Natchez Indians
Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Andy B : Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, Natchez MS This is a view inside the reconstructed Natchez house. This is from a sign outside the house: Reconstructed Natchez House and Granary The Natchez Indians lived in permanent houses of mud and pole construction with thatched grass roofs. The granary held surplus corn. The structure to the left of the granary provided shade and served as a dry... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : The Granary Image copyright: JuralMS, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Andy B : Visitor Center Image copyright: JuralMS, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Andy B : Exhibits Image copyright: JuralMS, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Native American dancer at the Powwow Event Image copyright: natchezsam (Sam Jones), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Andy B : Powwow01 Image copyright: natchezsam (Sam Jones), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Barbel Schlimbach crawls out of a replica of a Natchez Indian hut located at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians in Natchez, Mississippi. The Grand Village was ceremonial grounds for the Natchez Indians and two mounds used during these ceremonies can be seen by visitors. The third mound, which remains unexcavated, is hidden behind a thick forest. Image copyright: buhilltopics (Bradley Hillto...

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Natchez Trace Parkway Image copyright: PSA-MS (Pike School of Art - Mississippi), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Great Sun's Mound Image copyright: JuralMS, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Native Structures information board at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians Image copyright: zamburak, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Archaeological Excavations information board at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians Image copyright: zamburak, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Temple Mound Information Board Image copyright: zamburak, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Temple Mound Image copyright: JuralMS, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Historic Plaza Information Board Image copyright: zamburak, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Historic Ceremonial Plaza Image copyright: JuralMS, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Prehistoric Ceremonial Plaza Image copyright: JuralMS, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : Great Sun's house, which stood on Mound B Image copyright: mistabrite, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Grand Village of Natchez Indians submitted by Flickr : One of the mounds at Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, Natchez, Mississippi Image copyright: hjm81631, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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