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The Blackland Prairie of northeast Mississippi is the ancestral home of today’s Chickasaw Nation. They encountered the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto there in 1540, and later sent him and his men fleeing.(Kimberly Wescott and Brad Lieb, Chickasaw Native Explorers Program 2015)
The Blackland Prairie is a crescent-shaped swath of land extending from central Alabama into northeast Mississippi. Its fertile landscape is dotted with farms, cattle ranches, and the occasional commercial or i
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