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The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528–1536, hosted by the Portal to Texas History; Naufragios de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca at Project Gutenberg (in Spanish) Resources. Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca at American Journeys "The Journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca", American Journeys ...
Portrait of adelantado [note 1] Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who introduced the India Juliana in a 1545 account presented to the Council of the Indies.. Although the historical references about the India Juliana are brief, they establish a strong counterpoint with the more usual representations of Guaraní women in the early-colonial sources of the Río de la Plata region. [3]
The present edition is a revision of B. Smith's translation privately printed at Washington in 1851, from the 2d Spanish edition, published at Valladolid, 1555. The appendix includes translations of various Spanish documents relating to the expedition of Narváez and its historian "Alva[r] Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca [by T. W. Field]" : p. 233-254
This map is the earliest recorded document of Texas history. [18] Between 1528 and 1535, four survivors of the Narváez expedition, including Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Estevanico, spent six and a half years in Texas as slaves and traders among various native groups. Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to explore the interior of Texas.
1 History. Toggle History subsection. 1.1 16th century. 1.2 18th century. ... Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca wrote about the Akokisa in 1528, calling them the "Han." [3]
According to the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation's page on the coin, "Rewriting history to suit his own ends, Hoffecker claimed that El Paso was the end of the Old Spanish Trail traveled by early explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and the remnants of a 1527 Spanish expedition. This was not really the case, but apparently that didn't bother ...
Estevanico (c. 1500 –1539), also known as Mustafa Azemmouri and Esteban de Dorantes and Estevanico the Moor, was the first person of African descent to explore North America. He was one of the last four survivors of the Narváez expedition, along with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado.
La Junta Indians is a collective name for the various Indians living in the area known as La Junta de los Rios ("the confluence of the rivers": the Rio Grande and the Conchos River) on the borders of present-day West Texas and Mexico. In 1535 Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca recorded visiting these peoples while making his way to a Spanish settlement ...