THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
Native trails connected villages.
Rivers provided corridors.
Local guides understood crossings.
The Spanish depended on knowledge that already existed.
In that sense, even the expedition’s movement across the Southeast was made possible by Indigenous geography.
The Spanish did not create the route.
They entered it.
THE COLOSSAL SCALE OF THE JOURNEY
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