Since the earliest contact with European explorers in the 16th century, the Cherokee people have been consistently identified as one of the most socially and culturally advanced of the Native American tribes. Cherokee culture flourish many hundreds of years before primary European contact in the south eastern area of what is now the United States. One of the "Five civilized tribes" because of consumption of culture and technology of European-American settlers and also due to three-sister farming density high population. While the Native American called Natchez, they originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area in the Lower Mississippi Valley, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi in the United States.
