Line Creek

"Today on our journey along the Natchez Trace Parkway from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee we visit an exhibit called LINE CREEK.

"To the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians, private land ownership had no meaning. Land was something for the good of the group and was held in common by the tribe. Understandably then, property lines were not familiar and had little importance in the everyday lives of Indians and the tribes. Even between tribes, boundaries were seldom distinct. But the Chickasaw and the Choctaw tribes were not friendly, and over the years the two tribes came to accept a stream that flowed through this valley as the dividing line between their two lands. It remained a boundary until these two tribes were forced to move to Oklahoma in the 1830s.

"At this boundary was another one of the stands along the Old Trace. It belonged to Noah Wall and his wife.

"So, after we cross Line Creek near this exhibit we'll be leaving the old Choctaw Indian territory and entering what was the land of the mighty Chickasaw.

"Join us next time when we'll journey on up into the old Chickasaw lands and visit Bynum Mounds, burial mounds from the Woodland Indian Culture. I'm Frank Thomas, your guide along the Natchez Trace, a road through the wilderness."

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