[nach-iz] 
| 1. | a port in SW Mississippi, on the Mississippi River. 22,015. |
| 2. | a member of an extinct Muskhogean Indian tribe once living on the lower Mississippi River. |
| Natch·ez 1 (nāch'ĭz) n. pl. Natchez
[French, from Natchez.] Natch'ez adj. |
| Natch·ez 2 (nāch'ĭz) A city of southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River southwest of Vicksburg. Founded as a fortified settlement in 1716, it was held successively by France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States. Natchez prospered as the southern terminus of the Natchez Trace, a road connecting the city with Nashville, Tennessee, that was commercially and strategically important until the early 19th century. Population: 17,200. |
Natchez
North American Indian tribe of the Macro-Algonquian linguistic phylum that inhabited the east side of the lower Mississippi River. When French colonizers first interacted with the Natchez in the early 18th century, the tribal population comprised about 6,000 individuals living in nine villages between the Yazoo and Pearl rivers near the site of the present-day city of Natchez, Miss
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