Asif n Mississippi d asif ameqran akk deg Tamrikt n Ugafa. Ibeddu-d seg ugelmim n Itasca (deg Minnesota, deg Yiwunak Yeddukklen), yerna aman-nnes ttenɣalen s anẓul arma d Abagu n Miksik. Isafen n Missouri ed Ohio ssenɣalen-d daɣen aman-nsen s asif-a. Mississippi ɣer-s 3.780 n yikilumitren deg teɣzef, yerna tajumma-nnes tuweḍ ɣer 3,1 km2.
D anaram[1] Hernando de Soto ay d Uṛufi amezwaru ay yuwḍen s asif-a deg 1541. Deg 1673, Ifṛensisen Louis Jolliet ed Jacques Marquette ssaklen deg wasif-a yerna uwḍen armi d asif n Arkansas. Anaram afṛensis La Salle yuweḍ s adelta n wasif-a deg 1682 yerna d netta ay d Afṛensis amezwaru ay d-yesɣerten[2] tama n Mississippi ed Louisiana d ayla n Fṛansa. D aya ay yejjan Fṛansa ad teḥkem tama n ugafa n wasif-nni. Ma d tama n wenẓul-nnes teqqel ddaw udabu n Spenyul seg 1769 d asawen. Deg 1783, Iwunak Yeddukklen rran asif n Mississippi d talast-nsen tutrimt[3], sakkin, deg 1803, Fṛansa tessenz akal-nnes n Mississippi ed Louisiana i Yiwunak Yeddukklen. Deg 1863, deg tallit n Ṭṭraḍ aɣarim deg Yiwunak Yeddukklen, iɣallen imarikaniyen n Tdukli ḍḍfen tamdint n Vicksburg ay d-yezgan ɣef wasif n Mississippi yerna d aya ay ten-yejjan ad sbeɛden iɣallen Ikunfidiṛaliyen ɣef wasif-a. Ass-a, asif n Mississippi yeqqel d abrid ameqran n yiɣerruba deg Yiwunak Yeddukklen.