Talk:Natchez people

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[edit] History section

The article doesn't describe any history between the colonial era and modern times. How did the culture survive while living among other tribes?, etc. Rmhermen 14:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

The writing style of the history section sounds to me like it was probably written in the colonial era (and cut and pasted wholesale here), which would explain it. I certainly can't imagine any 21st-century Wikipedian writing, "The death of a Chief sometimes resulted in that of an hundred persons, who considered it a great honor to be sacrificed upon his death. Indeed few Natchez of note died without being attended to the other world by some of their relatives, friends or servants. So eager were persons to sacrifice themselves in this way, that sometimes it was ten years before their turn came, and those who obtained the favor, spun the cord with which they were to be strangled." —An gr 07:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)