Archaeologists Track Infamous Conquistador Through Southeast

***SOUL-DRIFTER*** · 11-28-2009, 08:37 AM

The American indians could have told them that.
The chiefs and elders of the area in and around southern Arkansas tell of their ancestors fighting off invaders that looked like the Conquistadors...and probably were. They claim that all their possesions and gold abandoned after the battle were placed in a cave and is kept secret from the white man today still. Dunno

Sixteenth century glass beads are among the rare artifacts discovered at Fernbank Museum of Natural History's archaeology site, which scholars believe is a stop along Hernando de Soto's trek through the Southeast in 1540. (Credit: Dan Schultz/Fernbank Museum of Natural History)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/...91105084838.htm

**Castle-Bravo354** · 11-28-2009, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by SOUL-DRIFTER

The American indians could have told them that.
The chiefs and elders of the area in and around southern Arkensas tell of their ancestors fighting off invaders that looked like the Conquistadors...and probably were. They claim that all their possesions and gold abandoned after the battle were placed in a cave and is kept secret from the white man today still. Dunno

SD....I can't say as I blame them.....and I can sure understand why they remember them.

If memory serves other tribes from the southern plains also still have such memories. I am sure the Comanches and Apaches had contact and have memories.

**bart5050** · 11-28-2009, 11:49 AM

It is amazing that they don't remember the invaders for a lot worse.

After Cortez, De-Soto and the comquistadors, the Native American populations were devestated by the introduction of European diseases.

Measles were fatal to a population with no aquired immunity from generations of exposure.

I thought it odd that European diseases were so devestating to the Americans.
But there appear to be very few diseases of such scope the Americans introduced to the Europeans.

By the time the English settlers started establishing colonies, the Native American populations were a fraction of what they had been.

The Indian resistance may have been more formidable had this not happened.

Like the Neal Young song, "Cortez, what a killer."