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    The Natchez language is the ancestral language of the Natchez people who historically inhabited Mississippi and Louisiana, and who now mostly live among...
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  • Natchez may refer to: Natchez, Alabama, United States Natchez, Indiana, United States Natchez, Louisiana, United States Natchez, Mississippi, a city in...
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    Mississippi Valley, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi, in the United States. They spoke a language with no known close relatives, although it...
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  • Alabama. Though poorly documented, it was probably a dialect of the Natchez language. It was also the subject of controversy beginning in 1880–1882, when...
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    spoke an Ohio Valley Siouan language. The bearers of the Plaquemine culture were presumably speakers of the Natchez language isolate. The first written...
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  • List of Alabama placenames of Native American origin (category Articles containing Natchez-language text)
    Tensaw and Tensaw River - Etymology is unclear. May be related to the Natchez teansa. Tibbie - a shortened form of the Choctaw word "oakibbeha". Oakibbeha...
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  • Gulf languages are a proposed family of native North American languages composed of the Muskogean languages, along with four language isolates: Natchez, Tunica...
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  • Nancy Raven (category Natchez people)
    as Nancy Taylor, was a Natchez storyteller from Braggs, Oklahoma and one of the last two native speakers of the Natchez language. Her father was Cherokee...
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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...
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    The city of Natchez, Mississippi, was founded in 1716 as Fort Rosalie, and renamed for the Natchez people in 1763. According to archaeological excavations...
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  • 1718 to 1734, when he learned the Natchez language and befriended native leaders. He gives lengthy descriptions of Natchez society and its culture, including...
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    Tunican + Natchez + Muskogean + Timucua) Je–Tupi–Carib Jivaroan–Cahuapanan Kalianan Kandoshi–Omurano–Taushiro (Macro-)Katembri–Taruma Kaweskar language area...
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  • Consciously devised language Endangered language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer...
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  • Same-sex marriage in Oklahoma (category Articles containing Natchez-language text)
    with them. In the Yuchi language, two-spirit people are referred to as wãne nõwẽ (pronounced [wãˈne nɔ̃ˈwɛ̃]), and in Natchez as tsuna tama·l (pronounced...
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  • Olu Dara (category Musicians from Natchez, Mississippi)
    1941, in Natchez, Mississippi. His mother, Ella Mae Jones, was born in Canton, Mississippi. His father, Charlie R Jones, born in Natchez, was a traveling...
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    official language. English and Spanish are the most widely used languages in the U.S. The United States does not have an official language at the federal...
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    worked there until the outbreak of the Natchez revolt in 1729. At that time, the Yazoo and Koroa joined with the Natchez in attacking the French colonists...
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    Nancy Raven (1872–1957), Native American last known speaker of the Natchez language Nancy Rawles, American playwright, novelist, and teacher Nancy Reagan...
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    encountered by European colonists include the Taensa and Natchez peoples, who both spoke the Natchez language. The parish is named for former U.S. President James...
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     385–453. ISBN 978-0-8032-4235-7. Haas, M.R. (1956). "Natchez and the Muskogean languages". Language. 32 (1): 61–72. doi:10.2307/410653. JSTOR 410653. Smith...
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  • Taensa (category Natchez)
    described the Taensa language as being nearly identical with the Natchez language; the missionaries were learning the latter language in their efforts to...
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    Muskogean scholars continue to believe that Muskogean is related to Natchez. Most family languages display lexical accent on nouns and grammatical case, which...
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  • Ethnologue. "Omurano". Ethnologue. "Natchez". Ethnologue. Kimball, G. (2013). "The Woman Who Was a Fox: The Structure of a Natchez Oral Narrative". International...
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    Grand Village of the Natchez, (22 AD 501) also known as the Fatherland Site, is a 128.1-acre (0.518 km2) site encompassing a prehistoric indigenous village...
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  • currency of Brazil from 1986 to 1989 (symbol: NCz or NCz$) Natchez language, an indigenous language spoken in parts of the south eastern United States (ISO...
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  • Archie Sam (category Natchez people)
    Sam was the grandnephew of Watt Sam, the last native speaker of the Natchez language. Sam married Maudie Louise Quinton Sam (1914–2006), and the couple...
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    group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically...
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  • Mary Haas (category Linguists of Algic languages)
    (Ditidaht), as well as a number of languages that were mainly originally spoken in the American southeast: Tunica, Natchez, Creek, Koasati, Choctaw, Alabama...
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    Scholar and Sun Chief of the Natchez people Watt Sam and Nancy Raven- the last two native speakers of the Natchez language Sarah Vowell - Author Brig....
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