10 Facts About Mississippian culture

Mississippian culture was a Native American civilization that flourished in what is the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, varying regionally.

The Mississippi period is the chronological stage, while Mississippian culture refers to the cultural similarities that characterize this society.

In 1967 James B Griffin coined South Appalachian Mississippian to describe the evolving understanding of the peoples of the Southeast.

Caddoan Mississippian area, a regional variant of the Mississippian culture, covered a large territory, including what is eastern Oklahoma, western Arkansas, northeastern Texas, and northwestern Louisiana.

Plaquemine Mississippian culture was an archaeological Mississippian culture in the lower Mississippi River Valley in western Mississippi and eastern Louisiana.

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Good examples of this Mississippian culture are the Medora site in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, and the Anna, Emerald Mound, Winterville and Holly Bluff sites located in Mississippi.

Mississippian culture peoples were almost certainly ancestral to the majority of the American Indian nations living in this region in the historic era.

The historic and modern day American Indian nations believed to have descended from the overarching Mississippian culture include: the Alabama, Apalachee, Caddo, Chickasaw, Catawba, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek, Guale, Hitchiti, Ho-Chunk, Houma, Kansa, Missouria, Mobilian, Natchez, Osage, Quapaw, Seminole, Tunica-Biloxi, Yamasee, and Yuchi.

Mississippian culture visited many villages, in some cases staying for a month or longer.

At Joara, near Morganton, North Carolina, Native Americans of the Mississippian culture interacted with Spanish colonizers of the Juan Pardo expedition, who built a base there in 1567 called Fort San Juan.