"The Na'htchi, according to Gallatin, a residue of the well-known nation of that name, came from the banks of the Mississippi, and joined the Creek less than one hundred years ago. The seashore from Mobile to the Mississippi was then inhabited by several small tribes, of which the Na'htchi was the principal. Before 1730 the tribe lived in the vicinity of Natchez, Miss., along St. Catherine Creek. After their dispersion by the French in 1730 most of the remainder joined the Chicasa and afterwards the Upper Creek. They are now in Creek and Cherokee Nations, Indian Territory. The linguistic relations of the language spoken by the Taensa tribe have long been in doubt, and it is possible they will ever remain so." _J. W. Powell, Seventh Annual Report, Bureau of Ethnology, page 96._ See LOUISIANA: A. D. 1719-1750. See, also, above: MUSKHOGEAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Natchitoches; See Note, Appendix E. See TEXAS: THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Nausets. See above: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Navajos. See above: ATHAPASCAN FAMILY, and APACHE GROUP. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Neutral Nation. See above: HURONS, &c.; and IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY: THEIR CONQUESTS, &c. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Nez Percés, or Sahaptins. "The Sahaptins or Nez Percés [the Shahaptian Family in Major Powell's classification], with their affiliated tribes, occupied the middle and upper valley of the Columbia and its affluents, and also the passes of the mountains. They were in contiguity with the Shoshones and the Algonkin Blackfeet, thus holding an important position, intermediate between the eastern and the Pacific tribes. Having the commercial instinct of the latter, they made good use of it." _D. G. Brinton, The American Race, page 107._ ALSO IN _J. W. Powell, Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, page 106._ AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Niniquiquilas. See below: PAMPAS TRIBES. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Nipmucs, or Nipnets. See above: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY; also, NEW ENGLAND: A. D. 1674-1675; 1675; and 1676-1678 (KING PHILIP'S WAR). AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Nootkas. See below: WAKASHAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Nottoways. See above: IROQUOIS TRIBES OF THE SOUTH. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Nyantics. See above: ALGONQUIAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Ogalalas. See below: SIOUAN FAMILY. AMERICAN ABORIGINES: Ojibwas, or Chippewas.