Natchez may refer to:
Places
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Natchez, Alabama
Natchez is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Alabama, United States. It was the birthplace of William C. Maxwell, a pilot in the United States Army Air Service and namesake of Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. The New Hop ...
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Natchez, Indiana
Natchez is an unincorporated community in Halbert Township, Martin County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
History
A post office was established at Natchez in 1844, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1905. The community was lik ...
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Natchez, Louisiana
Natchez is a village in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 597 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Natchitoches Micropolitan Statistical Area. The village and parish are part of the Cane River National Heritage ...
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Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez ( ) is the county seat of and only city in Adams County, Mississippi, United States. Natchez has a total population of 14,520 (as of the 2020 census). Located on the Mississippi River across from Vidalia in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, N ...
, a city in southwestern Mississippi, United States
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Grand Village of the Natchez
Grand Village of the Natchez, ( 22 AD 501) also known as the Fatherland Site, is a site encompassing a prehistoric indigenous village and earthwork mounds in present-day south Natchez, Mississippi. The village complex was constructed starting a ...
, a site of Plaquemine culture in Adams County, Mississippi
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Natchez Trace
The Natchez Trace, also known as the Old Natchez Trace, is a historic forest trail within the United States which extends roughly from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi, linking the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi rivers. ...
, a historic trail from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee
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Natchez Trace Parkway
The Natchez Trace Parkway is a national parkway in the southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Natchez Trace and preserves sections of that original trail. Its central feature is a two-lane road that extends 444 miles (715 ...
, a United States National Parkway
People with the name
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Naiche
Chief Naiche ( ; –1919) was the final hereditary chief of the Chiricahua band of Apache Indians.Johansen, Bruce E"Naiche (ca. 1857–1919)." ''Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.'' (retrieved 25 Sept 2011 ...
, also known as Natchez, the son of Cochise and last hereditary ruler of the Chiricahua Apaches
Peoples and cultures
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Natchez language
The Natchez language is the ancestral language of the Natchez people who historically inhabited Mississippi and Louisiana, and who now mostly live among the Muscogee and Cherokee peoples in Oklahoma. The language is considered to be either unrelat ...
, the language of the Natchez people
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Natchez people
The Natchez (; Natchez pronunciation ) are a Native American people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area in the Lower Mississippi Valley, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi in the United States. They spoke a language ...
, a Native American nation, namesake of the Mississippi city
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Les Natchez
''Les Natchez'' is a romance written by François-René de Chateaubriand, during his exile in England, and printed in 1825–1826. Its subject is the Natchez people
The Natchez (; Natchez pronunciation ) are a Native American people who origin ...
'', a novel by French author François-René de Chateaubriand
* ''The Natchez'', a painting by
Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix ( , ; 26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.Noon, Patrick, et al., ''Crossing the Channel: Britis ...
Ships
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''Natchez'' (boat), several vessels of the same name
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USS ''Natchez'', three U.S. Navy ships of the same name
Other uses
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Natchez (horse), American racehorse
See also
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Naches (disambiguation)
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