W’Nahx’-Chee: The Natchez People - Mississippian Culture - History, Culture & Affiliations

This is a video for: “W’Nahx’-Chee: The Natchez People“. There are also videos in this channel for many more North & South American Tribes & First Nations, Chiefs, Elders, Historical Events, Indigenous Concerns, Quotes, Environmental Youth Activists ..and much more. ------------------------------------------------ “The Natchez People” are an Indigenous 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. The Natchez are noted for having had an unusual social system of nobility classes and exogamous marriage practices. It was a strongly matrilineal kinship society, with descent reckoned along female lines. The Paramount Chief named the Great Sun, was always the son of the Female Sun, whose daughter would be the mother of the next Great Sun. This ensured, that the Chiefdom stayed under the control of the single Sun lineage. Around 1730, after several wars with the