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Chickasaw Village Site
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Chickasaw Village Site
Located At This Stop Self Guided Trail Hiking Trail Distance to Nearest Parkway Restroom 4.2 Miles North to Parkway Visitor Center 28.6 Miles South to Witch Dance Distance to Nearest Gas Stations 0.6 Miles North to MS Hwy 178 Then 0.5 Miles West 3.3 Miles South to Main St Then 1.0 Miles East or West |
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Chickasaw Village Site "Welcome to our village. This is a place that we think of as our home. This is our community. This is the place where we lived. It is not only a place where we lived, it is a place where we took care of each other. In our community, if one person is hungry, everybody is hungry, and the hunters would go out and they would hunt, and they would bring animals back and everybody would eat... "If somebody is cold, or somebody doesn't have any clothing, the hunters would bring back those animals and the people would make clothing... "If we were to have visitors that came from long distances, say from the area now known as North or South Carolina... They would find people within this village who were of the same clan. They would have a place to stay for the night. They would have a place to eat, and they would have entertainment. They could talk about the news of what was happening in their village." LaDonna Brown, Chickasaw Nation anthropologist. Today, Chickasaw Village Site is a great location to see wildflowers and do some bird watching, as well as learn about Chickasaw culture. The Blackland Prairie section of the Natchez Trace National Scenic Trail runs through Chickasaw Village. There are also two short foot trail loops,and a horse trail loop. (National Park Service) |
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Ariel View of the Chickasaw Village Site This was once the location of a large Chickasaw Village. The sizes and shapes of their homes are marked on the ground. Interpretive signs share the site history which is located on a portion of Black Belt Prairie. Visit the Chickasaw Village site and imagine what it would have been like to live here hundreds of years ago. (National Park Service) |
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Fort The fort was an enclosure of stout logs set at an angle sloping inward. Crouched in a trench inside the wall, the Chickasaws shot at attackers through ground-level slits. The fort idea probably was suggested by the British to combat another European "import" siege tactics. |
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Winter Warmth Each day, a fire was built on the floor to furnish heat through the night. The British trader. Adair, reported that "While the new fire is burning down, the house, for want of air, is full of heat and smoky darkness; and all this time, a number of them lie on their broad bed places with the heads wrapped up". |
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Winter House The Chickasaws built a stout frame of logs and covered it with a layer of oak or hickory splints, six or seven inches of clay and a thick thatch of long grass. The entrance hall, carving along the outside wall was low and narrow, to impede winds and invading enemies. |
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Summer House Trader Adair wrote that the Chickasaw could erect a summer house in one day, rising no tools but a hatchet and knife. A cypress shingle roof, pine or cypress clapboard walls, and a covering of bark held on with lashed-on saplings made a shelter " . . . the side and gables of which are bullet-proof". |
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Chickasaw Village Site
Mile Post 261.8 |
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