THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA

The political relationships.

The landscape.

All of these things existed before the Spanish arrived.

The people of Capachequi did not wake up in 1540 and suddenly become part of history.

They already had a history.

The Spanish simply inserted themselves into it.

THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE

The precise identities of sixteenth-century Native communities can be difficult to connect to later tribal identities.