FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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mounds
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chukkas
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sand castles
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Moundbuilding. Moundbuilding was an expression of the complex tribal religion with the mounds serving as bases for sacred buildings. The people of the tribe worked together to construct and maintain the mounds.
Detailed explanation-2: -Natchez (Mississippi) The cult of the sun represented the official religion of the chiefdom. . . .
Detailed explanation-3: -Traditional Natchez religion venerated the Sun, which was represented by a perpetual fire kept burning in a temple. All fires in a village, including the sacred fire, were allowed to die once a year on the eve of the midsummer Green Corn ceremony, or Busk.
Detailed explanation-4: -Natchez, Mississippi may be best known for its antebellum mansions, but the human history of the area goes back thousands of years. The story ofNatchezbegins with the indigenous mound-building cultures, known since French occupation as the Nachee, or Natchez Indians.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Natchez are also 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.