The Grand Village is a 128 acre site with earthwork mounds located in present day Natchez, Mississippi. At least three platform mounds were built in stages, from 1200 CE until the arrival of the French settlers in the early 1700′s.

This village was the native Natchez tribe's main political and religious ceremonial center from about 1650 after replacing Emerald Mound that was previously the primary site for these purposes.

After suffering a military defeat by the French in 1730-1, the Natchez abandoned the site and some escaped but most, over five hundred were exiled to the French sugar growing colony on the island of Haiti.

Two of the mounds, the Great Sun′s Mound and the Temple Mound, have been excavated and rebuilt to their original sizes and shapes. A religious structure once stood atop the Temple Mound and housed bones of previous chiefs, which were called Suns, thus the reason for calling the mound, the Great Sun′s Mound.

A sacred perpetual fire was kept in the Temple′s inner sanctum, symbolic of the sun, from which the royal family had descended.

The Great Sun mound (mound B) is the larger of the three mounds on the site, approximately twenty-five feet high with a flat top and rectangular in shape, about sixty feet wide by seventy feet long.

The Temple mound (mound C) is about twelve feet in height with a flat top and rectangular, approximately fifty feet long by thirty feet wide, with a ramp, fifteen feet wide by twenty feet long, extending down from the side facing the Great Sun mound.

The third mound (mound A), called Abandoned mound is almost entirely covered with trees and is hard to discern it′s size. The use and purpose of this mound is unknown because it was not being used when the French arrived, neither has excavations provided answers.