It was named for the historic Natchez people, who used the site in the 17th and 18th centuries.

This ceremonial center for the Natchez people is occupied and built upon until the early 17th century.

In the early 18th century, when the historic Natchez people occupied the site, they added to the mounds.

By the mid-eighteenth century, the Natchez people were defeated and dispersed.

This site contains mounds and was the political and social focal point of the Natchez people.

In retaliation, the French eventually killed or deported most of the Natchez people.

Their society had similarity to the Natchez people in its practice of sacrificial rites and hierarchical social classes.

They lived near the Natchez people.

Centuries later the Avoyel and Natchez peoples lived in the vicinity of the site until 1700.

They built numerous large plantations and concessions, as well as smaller farms, on land acquired from the Natchez people.

Between 1682 and 1729, the Natchez people used the village as their main ceremonial center, as noted in contemporary French accounts.

A remnant of the Natchez people settled with the Abihka after being dispersed by the French in the 18th century.

René, a desperately unhappy young Frenchman, seeks refuge among the Natchez people of Louisiana.

The local Natchez people were generally welcoming of the French, although skirmishes in 1722 and 1723 showed the tensions of competition for land and food.

Grand Village of the Natchez: The main village of the Natchez people, with three mounds.

It is also the location of the historic White Apple Village of the Natchez people and the Mazique Plantation.

Natchez has been the name of several steamboats, and four naval vessels, each named after the city of Natchez, Mississippi or the Natchez people.

In the 1710s and 1720s, New France engaged in frontier warfare with the Natchez people and the Meskwaki people, during which both sides would employ the practice.

Instead, their language seems more akin to that of the Biloxi or Natchez people, both of whom have been linked in this way to the Sioux, Crow, and Ho-Chunk.

These two pieces are significant because the ethnographic history of the area records the use of stone temple statuary by the Natchez people, but these are the only known examples to have been found.

Ignace François Broutin (La Bassée, 1690-1751) was a French military officer, commander of Fort Rosalie among the Natchez people, and later an architect in colonial Louisiana.

The last was the most widespread war; the Natchez attacked and killed many of the French in Natchez territory; in retaliation, the French gained the Choctaw as allies, eventually defeating the Natchez people.

The Four Mothers Society is a religious, political, and traditionalist organization of Muscogee Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw people, as well as the Natchez people enrolled in these tribes, in Oklahoma.

The original site of Natchez was the main ceremonial village of the Natchez people (pronounced "Nochi") Indian tribe, who occupied the area for countless generations (and whose culture was unbroken since the 8th-century, according to archaeological findings).

By the time of European contact, the Natchez were no longer using Mound A. Most of the Natchez people lived dispersed in small villages in the area and would gather for special occasions at the Grand Village.