From shipwreck survivors to revered healers, Cabeza De Vaca the Children of The Sun were the first Europeans to see the American Southwest...tune in for their unbelievable tale of survival. Support Our Work On Patreon: / hokc
The story I heard of how Estavanico died in the book I read is: while he was in the healing entourage he gained great respect from the natives just as De Vaca did and the native tribes gave him women to sleep with, but when he went back during the second expedition he encountered tribes that did not know who he was and he began to demand their women to sleep with, they took this as a great insult and shot him full of arrows.
great work on telling this epic story! having known De Vaca as an adelantado to Paraguay, it was amazing reading his memoirs and learning first hand and in details all of the hardships he had been through in North America before coming to South A.
I cannot understand how in the hell them guys were able to travel as far as the did through those lands. I've driven and flow through and over much of that land. And even that is difficult.
The Spanish era is very interesting and important. Can you do a presentation on Friar de Corpa, and the five Martyrs of Saint Simon's Island. They worked hard to help and convert the Guale people in Georgia. They are known as The Five Martyrs.
Fast and loose with the first hand account. I love your channel and now I wonder about the other episodes? Cabeza De Vaca's actual account is a short 80 pages or so.... and is quite the story should one do the study of the context and characters outside his narrative. Navarez was a brutal thug and none too smart. He massacred thousands of Natives in Cuba for no reason. He was defeated by Cortez when he outnumbered him 4 to 1 in Mexico. He had only one eye the other being speared out by Cortez's men. De Vaca really tried to treat the Natives kindly when he was on the river Plata, that being his downfall. This in spite of the fact that his Slavery amongst some poverty-stricken Natives in Texas was horrific. DeSoto got a brief from DeVaca prior to his expedition. Steve, the Slave, was quite the man and I would like to think he faked his death.
1:43 from my understanding they launched their rafts into the Saint Marks river. They have a whole display about it at the San Marcos de Apalache park which is the old Spanish fort on the Saint Marks and Wakulla river junction.
Another excellent video on western history, I was familiar with the De Vaca’s epic journey. It is amazing that any of them survived. One question, why did you use a German map?
@@historyattheokcorral I've been watching all your videos multiple times I'm an old west fanatic and your work is superb. Thank you for all you do and I know your channel is only going to grow more and more.
Artists always make sure to Bantunize what was most likely a Berber man by giving him more sub-saharan African features and darker skin in comparison to what the average North African looks like.
If I were Stevnico I would choose the harsh yet free life in the deserts of New Mexico over slavery too. I am sure he must have found a band of Natives that accepted him as one of their own or just let him be. Even if he became slave to one of the tribes it must have been way better than being a slave in Mexico City.
I love this story so much, I bought a vcr copy that wasn't playable in my region, hoping I could find a conversion method..... fail 😒 P.s. auto spell no longer recognises vcr.
