Natchez

(nach'ez), the name of a N. American tribe which formerly had their home in the N. part of Mi i ippi State, adjoining the Mi i ippi river. In resistance to the inroads of the French colonists, they, in 1729, rose up and made a complete ma acre of their invaders. In the following year, however, the tables were turned by a body of French troops, with their Choctaw allies, retaliating by making the chief of the N., and some 400of the tribe, prisoners and selling them into slavery. The remnant became dispersed among other tribes, and eventually became lost sight of. Natch'ez, in Mi i ippi, a city, C. of Adams co., on a high bluff overhanging the Mi i ippi river, 100 miles S.W. of Jackson, in N. Lat. 31° 34', W. Lon. 91° 25'. It is a well-built and regularly laid-out place, and has an important shipping-trade in cotton. Pop. 9,057. [s. 632]