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To: Flaming Conservative

The Natchez of Mississippi did though they were quite unique compared with other Indian peoples, speaking an unrelated language. They carried out human sacrifice at least late in their existence [though when the practice started is unknown], largely voluntary according to the French, who witnessed it when a ‘Great Sun’ died and people in his entourage were sacrificed with him. Their method was to take a drug rendering themselves senseless [plug of tobacco] whereupon the executioner would strangle them with a cord. A Sun’s death was also a rare opportunity for commoners willing to self-sacrifice by joining the entourage to raise the status of their kin.
The Natchez were one of the people that kicked Hernando deSoto’s butt, as he encountered them in their prime. It was about 140 years before they saw another white, but by that time they were beginning to suffer the ravages of introduced European diseases because their trade with other tribes exposed them.
The French ultimately slaughtered many of them and sold the survivors off as slaves to the West Indies.


40 posted on 11/19/2019 2:37:26 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

Interesting. Thank you.


44 posted on 11/19/2019 3:36:24 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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