OUR CALENDAR HAS 13 MONTHS

Our first month (Moon - kuvsep kvhvp, white sun)  The first, Deer Moon is about March

English

Deer

Strawberry

Little Corn

Watermelon/Squash

Peach/Fish

Mulberry

Great Corn/GreenCornTurkey

Bison

Bear

Cold Meal

Chestnut

Walnut ( & all other nuts)

Natchez

Chv

Oruh

Ha'kuyv Cekestanu

Yewes Kvyap

Vpesur/Henn

Yeweskvyap

Ha'kuyv Sel (Pookup)

Sorkorser

Wastanem

Tsokohp

Hakwi

Puilusi

Puhelush (Merkv)

Language and Research

Some Natchez are multilingual, speaking a degree of Natchez and primarily the Cherokee and/or Muscogee Languages. Most have adopted English and the language of the tribe with which they are most closely affiliated. The Natchez language is preserved by tribal members through limited daily use, on audiotape and videotape, carbon cylinders at the University of Michigan, and there is much interpretable data at the University of Oklahoma Western History Collection.  Recently language materials have been made available online.

A Natchez author, Clifford Gene Snyder, has compiled and edited the major research on the Natchez people and his work is on record with the Library of Congress. The Natchez language is not likely to totally disappear as at least some of the Creek (Mvskoke) language is based on ours. You may wish to volunteer to edit or compile our language information...please visit the Contacts page to find out more!

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