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A proposed route for the de Soto Expedition, based on Charles M. Hudson map of 1997. [1] This is a list of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in the years 1539–1543. In May 1539, de Soto left Havana, Cuba, with nine ships, over 620 men and 220 surviving horses and landed at Charlotte Harbor, Florida. This began his ...
Hernando de Soto was born around the late 1490s or early 1500s in Extremadura, Spain, to parents who were both hidalgos, nobility of modest means.The region was poor and many people struggled to survive; young people looked for ways to seek their fortune elsewhere.
The list of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition chronicles those villages. Some encounters were violent, while others were relatively peaceful. In some cases, de Soto seems to have been used as a tool or ally in long-standing native feuds. In one example, de Soto negotiated a truce between the Pacaha and the Casqui.
de Soto route through the Caddo area, with known archaeological phases marked When the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto led an expedition into the southeastern region of North America in the 1540s, his party encountered Native American groups recorded as the Naguatex , Nishone , Hacanac , and Nondacao .
In 1540, the Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto penetrated to the Arkansas River and perhaps well into present-day southeastern Missouri, which was then populated by various Native American tribes, including the Osage. Under pressure from a constantly advancing white settlement, the Native Americans gradually retreated westward.
This fictional story about how the daughter of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto was buried in Sarasota Bay often gets credit for decades worth of storms that have spared the region. "I can see ...
In the aftermath of De Soto's expedition, the Mississippian cultures declined and disappeared. Hierarchical chiefdoms crumbled. They were replaced by loose confederacies of clans and the rise of historic regional tribes. The clans did not produce the agricultural surpluses of the previous society, which had supported the former population ...
Noted historian and de Soto researcher Charles M. Hudson theorized in the 1980s and 90s, that the de Soto entrada crossed the Ocmulgee River near the future site of Macon, Georgia, and that the Lamar Mounds may have been the location of the paramount town of the Ichisi. [3] This view has been supported by archaeologists who have worked at the site.