Yazoo (people)

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The Yazoo were a Native American tribe who were native to the southeastern United States and no longer exist. Both the Yazoo River , Yazoo County and the administrative seat of Yazoo City in Mississippi are named after the tribe.

history

The small tribe of the Yazoo settled north of today's city of Vicksburg on the lower reaches of the Yazoo River, a tributary of the Mississippi River , and was closely connected to the tribes native to the region, especially the Koroa and the Tunica . Catholic missionaries lived in the region from around 1700, and the French built a fort at the mouth of the Yazoo River in 1718 to monitor the waterway to the Chickasaw settlement area . In 1729 the Yazoo rose together with the Koroa, following the example of their neighbors, the Natchez , against the French and destroyed the fort. Both tribes were expelled from the region and probably joined the Chicasaw and the Choctaw .

Language and culture

Little is known about the language of the Yazoo, but it is said to have had similarities with that of the tunica. According to James Mooney , the culture of the Yazoo differed only slightly from the tunica, other ethnologists assume that the Yazoo were part of a branch line of the Sioux , which were spread in the region through the Biloxi on the coast and the Ofo in the hinterland. Like them, they made their living from hunting and fishing.

See also

literature

  • Frank E. Smith: The Yazoo River , University Press of Mississippi, 1988, ISBN 0878053557 , Chapter 2, pp. 11-17

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph Nathan Kane, Charles Curry Aiken: The American counties: origins of county names, dates of creation, and population data, 1950-2000 , 5th edition, Scarecrow Press, 2005, ISBN 0810850362 , p. 331
  2. ↑ Barry Pritzker: Native Americans: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and peoples, Volume 1 , ABC-CLIO, 1998, ISBN 0874368367 , p. 554