THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
History did too.
But Capachequi remained beneath the ground.
Waiting.
EXTENDED HISTORICAL CONTEXT
THE SOUTHEAST BEFORE THE SPANISH
To understand why the Capachequi discovery matters, it helps to remove the idea that the Southeast was a blank space before European arrival.
It was not.
For centuries, Native communities had developed along the major rivers and fertile lowlands of what are now Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and the Carolinas.
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