Yazoo tribe

The Yazoo were a tribe of Native Americans that were native to the southeastern United States and no longer exist. Both the Yazoo River, the Yazoo County and the administrative seat of Yazoo City in Mississippi are named after the tribe.

History

The small tribe of Yazoo moved north of the present city of Vicksburg on the lower course of Yazoo River, a tributary of the Mississippi River, and was closely linked with those based in the region tribes, especially the Koroa and Tunica. From about 1700 lived Catholic missionaries in the region, the French set up in 1718 at the mouth of the Yazoo River, a fort, which should monitor the waterway to the settlement area of ​​the Chickasaw. 1729 brought the Yazoo together with the Koroa following the example of their neighbors, of Natchez, against the French and destroyed the fort Both strains were expelled from the region and probably joined the Chicasaw and the Choctaw to.

Language and Culture

Little is known about the language of the Yazoo, but they should have had similarities with that of the tunica. According to James Mooney, the culture of the Yazoo differed only slightly from the Tunica, other anthropologists believe that the Yazoo were part of a collateral branch of the Sioux, who were in the region spread through the Biloxi on the coast and the Ofo in the hinterland. Like these, they lived by hunting and fishing.