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Archaeology of the Tunica...
Portage of the Cross
Then they went down the Mississippi again. (Their) big boats were tied together. They went (on) down until the rope broke. One (of) the boats went on down (the river). Then the other (boat) came to a stop on the shore. They settled again near that place. They did not see the other boat. It went on down the Mississippi. The Tunica settled there.
According to contemporary French accounts, the Tunica were driven from the Yazoo by Chickasaw raids instigated by the English. Whether or not it was that simple, there certainly was unrest in the Yazoo region which disrupted the Tunica’s accustomed activities, and so they again removed themselves from the scene as described in their own legends quoted above. Because the Natchez lived immediately to the south, the Tunica had to
move past them all the way down to the vicinity of the Red River confluence, again the next most major riverine junction. Coincidentally, it was also the place of the most important short cut in Mississippi River travel; the Portage of the Cross. Here they lived at several locations, including the archaeological sites of Angola Farm and Bloodhound.
This move did not seriously affect the Tunica’s
Portage of	Excavations at the Bloodhound site, a small settlement of the
CrOSS	Tunica at the Portage of the Cross during the period 1706-1731
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