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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827031303321

Autore

Hudson Charles M

Titolo

The Juan Pardo expeditions : explorations of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568 / / Charles Hudson ; with documents relating to the Pardo expeditions transcribed, translated, and annotated by Paul E. Hoffman ; afterword by David G. Moore, Robin A, Beck, Jr., and Christopher B. Rodning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8173-8321-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HoffmanPaul E. <1943->

Disciplina

975/.01

Soggetti

Catawba Indians - History - 16th century

Explorers - Southern States

America Discovery and exploration Spanish

Southern States History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Smithsonian Institution Press, c1990. With new introd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Preface to 2005 Edition; Preface to First Edition; Part I The Juan Pardo Expeditions; 1 Early Spanish Exploration; 2 Juan Pardo's Two Expeditions; 3 The Indians; 4 The Foundations of Greater Florida; 5 The Failure of Greater Florida; Part II The Pardo Documents; The ""Long"" Bandera Relation: AGI, Santo Domingo 224; The ""Short"" Bandera Relation: AGI, Patronato 19, R. 20; The Pardo Relation: AGI, Patronato 19, R. 22 (document 1); The Martinez Relation: AGI, Patronato 19, R. 22 (document 2)

Three New Documents from the Pardo Expeditions: AGI, ContratacioĢn 2929 No.2, R. 7Part III Afterword; Pardo, Joara, and Fort San Juan Revisited; Index; Errata; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

An early Spanish explorer's account of American Indians.   This volume mines the Pardo documents to reveal a wealth of information pertaining to Pardo's routes, his encounters and interactions with native peoples, the social, hierarchical, and political structures of the Indians, and clues to the ethnic identities of Indians known previously only through archaeology. The new afterword reveals recent archaeological evidence



of Pardo's Fort San Juan--the earliest site of sustained interaction between Europeans and Indians--demonstrating the accuracy of Hudson's route r