THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
When a colonial expedition disrupted a community, the loss was not simply demographic.
It was intellectual.
People carried knowledge in their memories.
Captivity and death could remove that knowledge from a community.
The archaeological site preserves the material environment in which that knowledge was practiced.
THE SPANISH AS A MOVING FORCE
De Soto’s army can be imagined as a moving disturbance.
Where it passed, it demanded resources.
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