CERTAIN MOUNDS ОЕ ARKANSAS AND OF MISSISSIPPI. 
By CLARENCE B. Moore. 
PANT IL 
MOUNDS or THE LOWER YAzoo AND LOWER SUNFLOWER Rivers, MISSISSIPPI. 
The Yazoo river has its origin in the northwestern part of the State of Mis- 
sissippi, and flows in a southerly course through the eastern part of the alluvial 
plain of the Mississippi valley, to its union with the Mississippi river, near the city 
Yazoo, and continues southward to its junction with the latter stream, about 44 
miles by water above Vicksburg. 
The Yazoo region is of considerable archeological interest, since the Yazoo 
Indians, who dwelt not far from the mouth of the river that bears their name, were 
at no great distance north of the famous Natchez Indians who, as the reader is aware, 
were found by the early explorers living near where now is the city of Natchez, 
Miss. The Yazoo had been, no doubt, long under the influence of the Natchez 
Indians, and in 1730 we find the Yazoo, on their return from a visit to the Natchez, 
massacring the small garrison of the French fort on the Yazoo river. 
According to Du Pratz, the Yazoo and other small tribes, after the Natchez 
troubles with the French, took refuge with the Chickasaw and were absorbed by 
them. 
B. F. French, however, says! there were still a few huts of the Yazoo on the 
Yazoo river so late as 1851. 
A list of the small tribes of the lower Yazoo is given by Coxe,’ and another 
by Chevalier Tonty,’ who says: “ The Yazous are masters of the soil.” 
Other lists are given by Du Pratz* and by Penicaut.^ Referring to the Yazoo 
river at the beginning of the eighteenth century, La Harpe 6 says: * Cabins of the 
Yazous, Courois, Offagoula and Ouspie are dispersed over the country upon mounds 
of earth made with their own hands." 
1 Hist. Coll. of La., Part III, p. 59, footnote. 
? French, Hist. Coll., of La., Part II, p. 227. 
3 Ibid., Part I, p. 82, et seq. 
* Histoire de la Louisiane, Paris, 1758, Vol. II, p. 226. 
? Hist. Coll. of La. and Fla., 1869, p. 61. 
* Hist. Coll. of La., Part ІП, p. 106. 
of Vicksburg. 
The Sunflower river has its source somewhat to the westward of that of the 
