Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa

<p>This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends," writes Charles Hudson. Grounded in careful research, his extraordinary work imaginatively brings to life the sixteenth-century world of the Coosa, a native people whose territory stretched across the Southeast, encompassing much of present-day Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama.<br><br>Cast as a series of conversations between Domingo de la Anunciacion, a real-life Spanish priest who traveled to the Coosa chiefdom around 1559, and the Raven, a fictional tribal elder, <i>Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa</i> attempts to reconstruct the worldview of the Indians of the late prehistoric Southeast. Mediating the exchange between the two men is Teresa, a character modeled on a Coosa woman captured some twenty years earlier by the Hernando de Soto expedition and taken to Mexico, where she learned Spanish and became a Christian convert. <br><br>Through story and legend, the Raven teaches Anunciacion about the rituals, traditions, and culture of the Coosa. He tells of how the Coosa world came to be and recounts tales of the birds and animals--real and mythical--that share that world. From these engaging conversations emerges a fascinating glimpse inside the Coosa belief system and an enhanced understanding of the native people who inhabited the ancient South.<br><br></p>

History

Hudson, Charles M.

Americas

The University of North Carolina Press

Literature & Fiction

United States

<p><div> <div> <div>In April 1735, twenty-year-old William MacGregor, possessing little more than a bottle of Scotch whiskey and a set of Shakespeare's plays, arrives in Charles Town, South Carolina, to make his fortune in the New World. The Scottish Highlands, while dear to his heart, were in steep economic decline and hopelessly entangled in dangerous political intrigue. With an uncle in Carolina, the long ocean voyage seemed his best chance for a new start. He soon discovers that the Jacobite politics of Scotland extend to Carolina, and when his mouth gets him in trouble with the Charles Town locals, dimming his employment opportunities, he seizes the one option still open for him and takes a job as a frontier packhorseman.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Soon young MacGregor is on the Cherokee trail to Indian country, where he settles in as a novice in the deerskin trade. Along the way William learns not only the arts of managing a pack train and trading with the Indians, but of reading the land and negotiating cultural differences with the Cherokee--whose clan system is much different from the Scottish clans of his homeland. William also learns that the Scottish enlightenment he so admires has not made much headway in the Carolina backcountry, where the real challenges are to survive, day to day, during the tense times after the Yamasee War and to remember that while in Indian country . . . it is their country.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>A scholar of the native Southeast, Charles Hudson has turned his hand to this work of historical fiction, bringing to life the packhorsemen, Indian traders, and southeastern Indians of the early 18th-century Carolina. With a comfortable and engaging style, Hudson peoples the Carolina frontier with believable characters, all caught up in a life and time that is historically well-documented but little-known to modern popular readers.</div> </div> </div></p>

The Packhorseman (Fire Ant Books)

Contemporary

University of Alabama Press

The Catawba Nation

University of Georgia Press

<p>Until its use declined in the nineteenth century, Indians of the southeastern United States were devoted to a caffeinated beverage commonly known as black drink. Brewed from the parched leaves of the yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria), black drink was used socially and ceremonially. In certain ritual purification rites, Indians would regurgitate after drinking the tea. This study details botanical, clinical, spiritual, historical, and material aspects of black drink, including its importance not only to Native Americans, but also to many of their European-American contemporaries.</p>

Black Drink: A Native American Tea

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Univ of Georgia Pr

The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704

Attempts to account for nearly two centuries that are missing from the history of the American South. Using Spanish explorers' chronicles to corroborate artefacts and topography, the text surveys the chiefdoms of the Southeast and re-examines many of the expeditions conducted at this time.

Tesser, Carmen Chaves

<p>Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the Southeast. Until now, his path has been one of history's most intriguing mysteries. With <i>Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun</i>, anthropologist Charles Hudson offers a solution to the question, "Where did de Soto go?" Using a new route reconstruction, for the first time the story of the de Soto expedition can be laid on a map, and in many instances it can be tied to specific archaeological sites.</p>
<p>Arguably the most important event in the history of the Southeast in the sixteenth century, De Soto's journey cut a bloody and indelible swath across both the landscape and native cultures in a quest for gold and personal glory. The desperate Spanish army followed the sunset from Florida to Texas before abandoning its mission. De Soto's one triumph was that he was the first European to explore the vast region that would be the American South, but he died on the banks of the Mississippi River a broken man in 1542.</p>
<p>Abundantly illustrated, <i>Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun</i> is a clearly written narrative that unfolds against the exotic backdrop of a now extinct social and geographic landscape. Hudson masterfully chronicles both De Soto's expedition and the native societies he visited. A blending of archaeology, history, and historical geography, this is a monumental study of the sixteenth-century Southeast.</p>

Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando De Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms

In this reconstruction of the history of the Catawba Indians, Charles M. Hudson first considers the "external history" of the Catawba peoples, based on reports by such outsiders as explorers, missionaries, and government officials. In these chapters, the author examines the social and cultural classification of the Catawbas at the time of early contact with the white men, their later position in a plural southern society and gradual assimilation into the larger national society, and finally the termination of their status as Indians with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This external history is then contrasted with the folk history of the Catawbas, the past as they believe it to have been. Hudson looks at the way this legendary history parallels documentary history, and shows how the Catawbas have used their folk remembrances to resist or adapt to the growing pressures of the outside world.

The Catawba Nation (University of Georgia Monographs)

<p>Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the U. S. Southeast. Until the 1998 publication of Charles M. Hudson’s foundational <i>Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun</i>, De Soto’s path had been one of history’s most intriguing mysteries. With this book, anthropologist Charles Hudson offers a solution to the question, “Where did de Soto go?” Using a new route reconstruction, for the first time the story of the de Soto expedition can be laid on a map, and in many instances it can be tied to specific archaeological sites.</p>
<p>Arguably the most important event in the history of the Southeast in the sixteenth century, De Soto’s journey cut a bloody and indelible swath across both the landscape and native cultures in a quest for gold and personal glory. The desperate Spanish army followed the sunset from Florida to Texas before abandoning its mission. De Soto’s one triumph was that he was the first European to explore the vast region that would be the American South, but he died on the banks of the Mississippi River a broken man in 1542. </p>
<p>With a new foreword by Robbie Ethridge reflecting on the continuing influence of this now classic text, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Knights is a clearly written narrative that unfolds against the exotic backdrop of a now extinct social and geographic landscape. Hudson masterfully chronicles both De Soto’s expedition and the native societies he visited. A blending of archaeology, history, and historical geography, this is a monumental study of the sixteenth-century Southeast.</p>

Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms

<p>HUDSON, C,: THE JUAN PARDO EXPEDITIONS, EXPLORATIONS OF THE CAROLINAS &amp; TENNESSEE, 1566-1568, WASHINGTON, DC, 1990, xii 342 p, figuras,Encuadernacion original, Nuevo,</p>

Juan Pardo Expeditions: Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568

Hoffman, Paul E.

Travel

Smithsonian

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Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa

Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa

The Packhorseman (Fire Ant Books)

The Catawba Nation

Black Drink: A Native American Tea

The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704

Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando De Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms

The Catawba Nation (University of Georgia Monographs)

Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms

Juan Pardo Expeditions: Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568