THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
It connects a Native village to a Spanish military campaign.
It connects a sixteenth-century object to a landscape that survived almost five hundred years of change.
Most importantly, it helps restore Capachequi to the story.
The Spanish army came and went.
The Native settlement remained in the ground.
Centuries later, researchers found it.
THE STORY BENEATH THE STORY
The most dramatic version of the story is easy to tell.