Mississippi Gallery

French Attack on Chickasaw Nation

Under the governor of Louisiana, Bienville, leader of the Sourthern contingent in a French campaign against the Chickasaw nation, French soldiers along with a Choctaw contingent sail to attack Akia along the Mississippi. This attack was to be a total failure, with no part of the village breached. Date: 1736

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Burial of De Soto on the Mississippi

Spanish soldiers lower the wrapped body of Hernando De Soto into the Mississippi River. A soldier holds a torch as a priest reads from the Bible. His men did this in the dead of night, and weighted his corpse down with sand, as they were trying to conceal his death by fever from the Guachoya people, whom among other native peoples he had been trying to convince he was the son of the Sun, to varying success. Date: 1542

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SHARECROPPER, 1937. A fifty-seven year old African American sharecroppers feet

SHARECROPPER, 1937.
A fifty-seven year old African American sharecropper's feet with dimes around her ankles to prevent headaches, Hinds County, Mississippi. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, June 1936

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