The last Mississippian temple-mound chiefdom, ruled by the Great Sun from the Grand Village.
Destroyed by France after the 1729 revolt; hundreds enslaved to Saint-Domingue in 1731, survivors scattered among the Chickasaw, Creek and Cherokee.
A scholarly history of the Natchez people and their destruction in French colonial Louisiana.
Places the Natchez within the broader Mississippian temple-mound tradition, useful for evaluating the 'last Mississippian chiefdom' framing.
The standard modern history of the Natchez, tracing their villages, the 1729 uprising, and the dispersal of survivors among neighboring nations.
A landmark French Romantic novella set among the Natchez on the lower Mississippi, hugely influential in shaping European imagination of the Natchez and Louisiana.