Yazoo may refer to:
Indigenous people
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Yazoo people
The Yazoo were a tribe of the Native American Tunica people historically located along the lower course of the Yazoo River in an area known as the Mississippi Delta. They were closely related to other Tunica language–speaking peoples, esp ...
, a Native American people who lived in Mississippi, United States
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Yazoo language
The Yazoo were a tribe of the Native American Tunica people historically located along the lower course of the Yazoo River in an area known as the Mississippi Delta. They were closely related to other Tunica language–speaking peoples, especi ...
, an unattested Indigenous language
Businesses and products
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Yazoo Brewing Company
Yazoo Brewing Company is a regional brewery in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It was co-founded in 2003 by brewmaster Linus Hall and his wife, Lila. It has since expanded operations and won several awards.
History
The brewery was located i ...
, a brewery in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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Yazoo/Kees (originally Yazoo Manufacturing Company), a maker of lawn mowers owned by Husqvarna
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Yazoo Records
Yazoo Records is an American record label founded in the mid-1960s by Nick Perls. It specializes in early American blues, country, jazz, and other rural American genres collectively known as roots music.
History
The first five releases (L 1001 ...
, an American record label
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Yazoo (drink), a flavoured milk drink made by Campina
Geography
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Yazoo Clay, a geologic formation in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi
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Yazoo County, Mississippi
Yazoo County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,743, and was estimated to be 23,024 in 2024. The county seat is Yazoo City. It is named for the Yazoo River, which forms its weste ...
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Yazoo City, Mississippi
Yazoo City is the county seat of Yazoo County, Mississippi, Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle in 1682 as "Rivière des Yazous" in referen ...
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Yazoo lands
The Yazoo lands were the central and western regions of the U.S. state of Georgia, when its western border stretched back to the Mississippi. The Yazoo lands were named for the Yazoo nation, that lived on the lower course of the Yazoo, in what ...
, a historic area in Mississippi and Alabama formerly occupied by the Yazoo tribe
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Yazoo River
The Yazoo River is a river primarily in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It is considered by some to mark the southern boundary of what is called the Mississippi Delta, a broad floodplain that was cultivated for cotton plantations before the Ame ...
, Mississippi, United States
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Yazoo stream
In geology and hydrology, a Yazoo stream (also called a Yazoo tributary) is any tributary stream that runs parallel to, and within the floodplain of a larger river for considerable distance, before eventually joining it. This is especially the ch ...
, a type of floodplain tributary
Other uses
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USS ''Yazoo'', several United States Navy ships
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Yazoo (band)
Yazoo (known as Yaz in North America) were an English synth-pop duo from Basildon, Essex, formed in late 1981 by former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke (keyboards) and Alison Moyet (vocals). The pair released two albums, ''Upstairs at Eric's' ...
, a 1980s English pop band, known as Yaz in Canada and the United States
*Yazoo, a character from ''
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children''
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Yazoo land scandal
The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a massive real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia governor George Mathews and the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia politicians sold large ...
, early American real estate fraud resulting in a landmark Supreme Court decision regarding contract law
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Yazoo darter
The Yazoo darter (''Etheostoma raneyi'') is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a darter from the subfamily Etheostomatinae, part of the family Percidae, which also contains the perches, ruffes and pikeperches. It is endemic to north-centra ...
(''Etheostoma raneyi'') a species of fish endemic to Mississippi, United States
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Yazoo shiner
The Yazoo shiner (''Notropis rafinesquei'') i is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish beloinging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows.
It is endemic to Mississippi in the Southeastern United States, where it inhabits the ...
(''Notropis rafinesquei''), a species of fish endemic to Mississippi, United States
See also
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Little Yazoo, Mississippi
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Yazoo Delta Railroad
The Yazoo-Delta Railroad (sometimes known as the ''Yellow Dog'') was a branch line that opened in August 1897 between Moorhead, Mississippi, Moorhead and Ruleville, Mississippi. It was extended to Tutwiler, Mississippi, and Lake Dawson and was acqu ...
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