THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
It did not begin with Jamestown.
It did not begin with Plymouth.
And it did not begin with the arrival of de Soto.
Those events belong to a much longer Indigenous history.
Capachequi is important because it makes that earlier history visible.
It demonstrates that Native political communities occupied the landscape at a level of complexity that cannot be reduced to a few sentences in a textbook.
The Spanish encountered organized societies.
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