The Mississippian way of life began to develop around the 10th century in the Mississippi River Valley ( for which it is named ).

The Mississippian began with a spike in atmospheric oxygen, while carbon dioxide plummeted to unheard-of lows.

Over 200 years passed and the Mississippian Indian culture disappeared, devastated by disease, but the Indian town named Chicasa which De Soto visited was probably the ancestral home of the Chickasaws who still lived in the area when Anglo-Americans began showing up.

Mound building at this location began with the Emergent Mississippian cultural period, about the 9th century CE.

Construction of Monks Mound by the Mississippian culture began about 900 – 950 CE, on a site which had already been occupied by buildings.

The Natchez are noted for being the only Mississippian culture with complex chiefdom characteristics to have survived long into the period after the European colonization of America began.

It may have been an older iconograph from the large Mississippian culture city of Cahokia, which began developing about 900 CE.

The Mississippian culture began to expand into Wisconsin in 1050 AD, and established a settlement at Aztalan, Wisconsin.

The fertile soil enabled production of surplus crops, which the Mississippian people used for trade and to support a large enough population to develop artisan and craft specialties.

Cultures in the tributary Tennessee River Valley may have also begun to develop Mississippian characteristics at this point.

The Mississippian is so named because rocks with this age are exposed in the Mississippi River valley.

In the five centuries prior to European contact, the Mississippian culture built numerous regional chiefdoms and major earthwork mounds in the Ohio Valley, such as Angel Mounds near Evansville, Indiana, as well as in the Mississippi Valley and the Southeast.

In North America, the Mississippian culture rose at the end of the millennium in the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys.

They were descendants of the Mississippian culture peoples, who built earthwork mounds at their regional chiefdoms located throughout the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries.

Approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi River Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture, a mound-building Native American people that had developed in the late Woodland Indian period.

The Mississippian Indians met Hernando DeSoto when he explored North Mississippi and, traditionally, came through DeSoto County.

The historic Creek peoples in this area are believed to have descended from the Mississippian culture, which flourished throughout the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys and the Southeast from about 1000 to 1450.

They are the only such sites discovered in Georgia east of the Mississippi River, and were made by the Mississippian peoples who inhabited the area 900-1500 A. D.

The Native American Choctaw people are descended from the Mississippian and other societies in the Mississippi river valley encountered by Spanish explorers in the early 16th century.

For instance, the Mississippian culture, reaching a peak about 1150 at Cahokia in present-day Illinois, had sites throughout the Mississippi and Ohio river valleys, and into the Southeast.

They are effigy and geometric mounds, different from the platform mounds at nearby Aztalan State Park, built by peoples of the Mississippian culture, which reached its peak about 1300 CE, had settlements throughout the Mississippi Valley and its tributaries, extending from central Illinois northward to the Great Lakes and also to the Southeastern United States.

They were descended from people of the Mississippian culture which was located throughout the Mississippi River valley.

Harrison ’ s campaign manager asked Bilbo, the junior member from Mississippi, to consider voting for his fellow Mississippian.

Likely built by the Mississippian culture, which rose about 1000 CE on the Mississippi and its tributaries, this mound was reported in use as late as 1540 by the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

With the rise of the Mississippian culture in the Mississippi and Ohio River valleys, tribal leaders organized thousands to build complex urban areas with numerous large earthworks-pyramidal, ridgetop and conical mounds used for religious, political and ceremonial purposes.

These included the Pre-Columbian cultures of the Archaic period ; Woodland period ( Adena and Hopewell cultures ); and the Mississippian period ; dating from roughly 3000 BCE to the 16th century CE, and living in regions of the Great Lakes, the Ohio River valley, and the Mississippi River valley and its tributaries, extending into the Southeast of the present-day United States.

The Mississippian culture had regional chiefdoms as far south as present-day Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as extending to western North Carolina and north to the Great Lakes area.

This site is the most northeastern of the Mississippian culture, which had sites throughout the river valleys of the Mississippi and its tributaries, such as the Ohio River.

He was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1836 ; reporter of the supreme court of the State of Mississippi ; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress and editor of the Mississippian.

The " Mississippi period " should not be confused with the " Mississippian culture ".

The Mississippi period is the stage, while Mississippian is referred to as the cultural similarities that characterize this society.

* Emerald Mound: A Plaquemine Mississippian period archaeological site located on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Stanton, Mississippi.

The early historic Muscogee were probably descendants of the mound builders of the Mississippian culture along the Tennessee River in modern Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama.

Map showing extent of the Caddoan Mississippian culture, including Spiro Mounds and the Kiamichi River valley.

The early historic Creeks were probably descendants of the mound builders of the Mississippian culture along the Tennessee River in modern Tennessee and Alabama, and possibly related to the Utinahica of southern Georgia.

Mississippian culture peoples built massive earthwork mounds along the Ouachita River beginning about 1000 CE.

Mississippian culture peoples built massive earthwork mounds along the Ouachita River beginning about 1000 AD.

Mound building had started earlier, before the Common Era, but Mississippian sites were located throughout the Lower Mississippian Valley and the tributaries of the river, as along the Ohio River.

The Mississippian culture was a complex, sophisticated prehistoric culture whose people built massive earthwork mounds in the Ohio River valley, areas they settled between 1000 AD and 1400 AD.

The town was a Mississippian Indian settlement along the Meramec River as early as the mid-18th century, until it was settled by French and German immigrant farmers in the 1760s.

Other prehistoric sites include an Early Woodland habitation area at the confluence of the Tennessee River and Knob Creek ( near the Knox-Blount county line ), and Dallas Phase Mississippian villages at Post Oak Island ( also along the river near the Knox-Blount line ), and at Bussell Island ( at the mouth of the Little Tennessee River near Lenoir City ).

Between 1200 and 1500 A. D., during the Dallas Phase of the Mississippian period, a group of Native Americans established McMahan Mound Site, a relatively large village centered around a platform mound and village site surrounded by a palisade just above the confluence of the West Fork and the Little Pigeon River.

The Fort Ancient culture was influenced by the contemporary Mississippian culture society based along the mid-Mississippi River valley with its North American center at Cahokia ( in present-day Illinois ).

The Mississippian farmers found this location by the Ohio River ideal for agricultural purposes, as annual spring floods replenished the nutrients in the soil and allowed cultivation of maize.

Mississippian sites on the Lower Ohio River