Natchez Revolt

November 28, 1729

In French Louisiana, the Natchez people rose against the colony that had demanded their sacred cornfield for a tobacco plantation, killing two hundred French. French retaliation, aided by Choctaw allies, all but annihilated the Natchez nation. Survivors scattered among neighboring peoples. A sophisticated mound-building culture was effectively extinguished. Their Great Sun, a living deity, was captured and sold into slavery in Saint-Domingue.