Mississippi Delta - Wikipedia
WEBThe Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.
Concept V: American Indian Heritage in the Delta - Lower Mississippi …
WEBNov 16, 2017 · Five thousand years ago the predecessors of today’s American Indians established communities in the Lower Mississippi Delta Region marked by large elaborate earthen mound structures. Around 1,000 A.D., larger, more complex mounds were erected by Mississippian cultures.
History and Culture of the Mississippi Delta Region
WEBBecause cultural creativity in the Delta is synergistic, resulting from the region’s European/African-American/Native American roots, the blues influenced other musical styles as well, including honky-tonk, boogie-woogie, country/ western, swamp pop, and …
Stories of the Delta - Lower Mississippi Delta Region (U.S.
WEBNov 16, 2017 · Native people had vital governments, economies, social structures, and trade networks long before Europeans arrived in the Delta. The legacy of African-Americans in the Delta is rich and varied. Once an enslaved people, their labor built much of the plantation architecture visitors see today.
Mississippi Returns Hundreds of Native Americans' Remains to Chickasaw ...
WEBApr 2, 2021 · Between 750 and 1,800 years ago, hundreds of Native Americans in what is now the northern Mississippi Delta region were buried alongside their kin and pet dogs in graves decorated with wolf...
Mississippi Delta - Southern Spaces
WEBApr 4, 2004 · Native Americans lived on the land that became known as the Delta from around 1000 B.C. They practiced small-scale farming and took part in a commercial hunting economy with whites after their arrival around the turn of the nineteenth century.
Cultural Heritage Themes - Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area
WEBA large number of Native American mounds relate to prehistoric settlement in the Delta, while fewer resources relate to the Choctaw and Chickasaw who lived in the area historically.
The Delta Divide: Creating the Delta's Diverse Communities
WEBThe contradictions that make up American society are visible in the paradoxes of the Delta—powerful and powerless, rich and poor, black and white, literate and illiterate, high class and low, sacred and secular, and humans and nature. Plantation agriculture and the stark contrasts it entails have embodied much of this divide.
Native Americans: The Original Mississippians - Visit Mississippi
WEBUp into the 1700s, local tribes included the Acolapissa, Biloxi and Pascagoula tribes on the Gulf Coast; the Bayougoula, Houma and Natchez tribes on the lower Mississippi; and the Chakchiuma, lbitoupa, Koroa, Ofogoula, Taposa, Tiou, Tunica and Yazoo tribes on the Yazoo River in the Mississippi Delta.
Historical Sites to See in Mississippi's Lower Delta
WEBThe lower delta of Mississippi is rich with history. It is the birthplace of the Blues, the place where President Teddy Roosevelt went bear hunting, location of Native American Indian Mounds, and full of rich stories.