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A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON
THE NATCHEZ INDIANS

 

by Jim Barnett, Director
Division of Historic Properties
Mississippi Department of Archives and History

c/o The Grand Village of the Natchez Indians
400 Jefferson Davis Boulevard
Natchez, Mississippi  39120
Phone: (601) 446-6502; FAX: (601) 446-6503; e-mail: gvni@bkbank.com

Note:   Most of these publications are available through interlibrary loan.  Retail prices are included for those publications that are available in the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians sales shop.  The prices are subject to change.  When ordering, please include $1.50 ($3.00 for orders outside the U.S.) per book to cover handling costs.



Barnett, Jim
1998 The Natchez Indians.  Mississippi Department of Archives and History Popular Report.  $6.00

1986 The Play Site (22Ad812): A Natchez Phase Burial in Natchez, Mississippi.  Mississippi Archaeology, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 3-11.

1984 A New Building Location at the Fatherland Site (The Grand Village of the Natchez). Mississippi Archaeology, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 2-11.


Brain, Jeffrey P

1994 On the Tunica Trail.  Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism, Louisiana Archaeological Survey and Antiquities Commission,  Baton Rouge.

1978 Late Prehistoric Settlement Patterning in the Yazoo Basin and Natchez  Bluffs Regions of the Lower Mississippi Valley.  In: Bruce D. Smith  (ed.),  Mississippian Settlement Patterns, Academic Press, New York, pp. 331- 368.

1971 The Natchez "Paradox."  Ethnology Vol. 10,  pp. 215-222.


Brown, Calvin S.

1926 Archaeology of Mississippi.  Reprinted 1992 by the University Press of Mississippi, Jackson.


Brown, Ian W.

1989 Natchez Indians and the Remains of a Proud Past.  In Noel Polk (ed.)    Natchez Before 1830, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, pp. 8-28.

1985 Natchez Indian Archaeology: Culture Change and Stability in the Lower    Mississippi Valley.  Mississippi Department of Archives and History,   Archaeological Report No. 15, Jackson. $10.00


Brown, James A.

 1990 Archaeology Confronts History at the Natchez Temple.  In:  Southeastern  Archaeology, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-10.


Buzhardt, Gail Alexander and Margaret Hawthorn

1993 Rencontres sur le Mississippi, 1682-1763: A French Language Reader of Historical Texts.  University of Mississippi Press, Jackson.  $28.00


Charlevoix, Pierre F. X. de

1977 Charlevoix's Louisiana:  Selections from the History and the Journal.     Edited by Charles E. O'Neill, Louisiana State University Press, Baton    Rouge.
Clayton, Lawrence A., Vernon J. Knight, Jr., and Edward C. Moore (eds.)
1993 The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando De Soto to North    America in 1539-1543, Volumes I & II.  The University of  Alabama Press,   Tuscaloosa. $50.00 for two-volume set
Cushman, H. B.
1899 History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez Indians.  Headlight    Printing House, Greenville, Texas.


Elliott, Jack D., Jr.

1998 The Fort of Natchez and the Colonial Origins of Mississippi. Eastern National Parks and Monument Association.  $3.95


Frank, Joseph III

1975 In Defense of Hutchins' Natchez Indian.  Mississippi Archaeology, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 7-12.


Galloway, Patricia

1995 Choctaw Genesis: 1500-1700.  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.  $25.00


Giraud, Marcel

1993 A History of French Louisiana, Volume Two, The Years of Transition, 1715-1717.  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge. $32.50
 1990 A History of French Louisiana, Volume One, The Reign of Louis XIV,    1698-1715.  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge. $50.00

1987 A History of French Louisiana, Volume Five: The Company of the Indies, 1723-1731 (translated by Brian Pearce).  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge. $65.00


Haas, Mary R.

1939 Natchez and Chitimacha Clans and Kinship Terminology. American Anthropologist, Vol. 41, No. 4, October-December.


Hudson, Charles

1976 The Southeastern Indians.  University of  Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
$18.95
Lankford, George E.
 1987 Native American Legends: Southeastern Legends, Tales from the Natchez,   Caddo, Biloxi, Chickasaw, and Other Nations.  August House     Pub., Little Rock.  $16.95


Le Page du Pratz, Antione Simon

1774 The History of Louisiana or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina.  Reprinted 1972 by Claitor's Publishing Division, Baton Rouge. (includes illustrations; printed in modern typeface; no index)


Le Page du Pratz, Antione Simon

1774 The History of Louisiana or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina.  (Edited by Joseph G. Tregle, Jr.) A facsimile reproduction of the 1774 edition; published for the Louisiana American Bicentennial Commission by the Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge. (no illustrations; printed in old English typeface, includes index)


Marshall, Richard A.

1998 Indians of Mississippi:  An Archaeological Perspective.  Reprint by Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Starkville.  $14.00


McWilliams, Richebourg Gaillard (ed.)

1988 Fleur de Lys and Calumet: Being the Pénicaut Narrative of French
 Adventure in Louisiana.  University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
1981 Iberville's Gulf Journals.  University of  Alabama Press, University, Al.
$14.50


Moore, Alexander (editor)

1988 Nairne’s Muskhogean Journals:  The 1708 Expedition to the Mississippi River by Capt. Thomas Nairne.  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson.
  $20.00


Neitzel, Robert S.

1983 The Grand Village of the Natchez Revisited:  Excavations at the Fatherland   Site, Adams County, Mississippi, 1972.  Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Report No. 12, Jackson.
$20.00
1997 Archaeology of the Fatherland Site:  The Grand Village of the Natchez. Reprint of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 51, Part 1.  Mississippi Department of Archives and History Archaeological Report No. 28, Jackson. $20.00


Oswalt, Wendall H. and Sharlotte Neely

1996 The Natchez:  Sophisticated Farmers of the Deep South.  In This Land Was Theirs, 5th Edition, Mayfield Publishing Co., Mountain View,     California, pp. 467-491.  $38.95
Rowland, Dunbar and A. G. Sanders (editors and translators)
1927-32 Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion, Vols. I-III.      Mississippi  Department of Archives and History, Jackson.


Rowland, Dunbar, A. G. Sanders, and Patricia K. Galloway (editors and translators)

 1984 Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion, Vols. IV-V.      Mississippi  Department of Archives and History, Jackson.$55.00 each


Steponaitis, Vincas P.

 1981 Plaquemine Ceramic Chronology in the Natchez  Region.  Mississippi    Archaeology, Vol. 14,  No. 2, pp. 6-19.


Stern, Theodore C.

 1977 The Natchez.  In Robert F. Spencer and Jesse D. Jennings (eds.), The Native Americans, 2nd edition, pp. 414-424, Harper and Row, New York    (original edition 1965).


Swanton, John R.

1911 Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley  and Adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico.   Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 43, Washington, D.C.  Reprinted 1998 by Dover Press.  $16.95


Van Tuyl, Charles D.

1979 A Short English-Natchez Dictionary.  Oklahoma Historical Society, Series in Anthropology, No. 4, Oklahoma City.


Weddle, Robert S., Mary C. Morkovsky, and Patricia Galloway (eds.)

 1987 Minet, "Journal of Our Voyage to the Gulf of  Mexico," translated by Ann    Linda Bell.  In: La Salle, the Mississippi, and the Gulf.   Texas A&M    University Press, College Station. $39.50


Wells, Mary Ann

1994 Native Land: Mississippi 1540-1798.  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson.


White, Douglas R., George P. Murdock, Richard Scaglion

1971 Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered.  Ethnology, Vol. 10, pp.    369-388.

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