2. Native to the Southeastern United States

3. In a bloody battle with Hernando DeSoto’s fortune hunting expedition in 1540

4. European traders who arrived in their homeland

5. Intermarried, converted to Christianity and adopted other white customs

6. Chickasaw, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole

7. 200,000 strong and self sufficient, dedicated to improving the lives of its people

9. Mostly in Louisiana (Allen Parish); the piney woods of SW LA for more than a century

10. Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto

11. to remain in neutral areas between French, Spanish, American, and Mexican territories

12. maize and other crops along with hunting game

13. rice and crawfish farming and development of a new cattle raising program