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Desoto comes to Arkansas
Ken Goff contacted me from Arkansas. His group is a newly formed organization operating out of Parkin Archaeology State Park. Arkansas. This is on or near the site where DeSoto met the Casqui Indians in June of 1541.
The Arkansas group will be outfitting 13 Spaniards and DeSoto himself. Kent hopes to see the organization grow and looks forward to filling a void in educating the populace of the Mississippi Valley.
Their first major event will be the "Trail of Time" at Parkin Archaelogy State Park, September 12- 14, 1997.
Kent can be contacted at kgoff@ccl.cvsc.k12ar.us
Notes on the
Northern Frontier
Hugo O'Conor still had to confront the never-ending Apache threat. One day before the return of the commandant inspector, Apaches virtually annihilated a group of twenty-nine presidial soldiers and eight Indian auxiliaries five leagues from La Babia in Coahuila, Mexico. Two days later, in the northern portion of Nueva Vizcaya, another particularly sanguinary combat occurred at Ojo Caliente, when a force of 300 Apahces attacked a Spanish contingent from the presidio of San Buenaventura. This time the Spaniards won a costly victory, killing forty Apaches but losing an officer, twelve soldado de cuera, and ten Indian auxiliaries.
The Red Captain, 1994
Mark Santiago
Palabras
Vara -- A Spanish yardstick of 2.75 feet (33 inches) or roughly 84 centimeters.
Milpa -- from the Aztec millipa. It is a small subsistence agricultural plot that is farmed for only a few seasons due to a thin layer of topsoil and consequently rapid soil exhaustion.
Noticias de la Jornada
Several groups are criss-crossing the country this fall.
The Company of Pedro Calderon of Florida is planning a trip west for the Cabrillo event in San Diego.
The cueras from San Diego presidio are off to Yuma onl July 20 to suffer
the over 100 degrees.
temperatures to commerorate (unofficially) the last stand of Rivera
y Moncada on the Colorado River. (We're too smart for that. Our courageous
leader used to live there!)
The Galvez Contingent of the Washington, D.C. area is headed to the Santa Barbara Ca. Festival in the first week of August.
Alcanza quien
no cansa.
He who perserves goes far.
With DeSoto on the Mississippi!
The Desoto Company in Arkansas is looking for volunteers!
The Company, headquartered at Parkin Archaeology State Park in Arkansas, prespresents soldiers of the De Soto expedition which crossed the Mississippi Valley and meet the Casqui Indians there in June, 1541,
If you are interested in representing Spanish explorers in Arkansas
please contact Kent Goff at
lgoff@ccl.crsc.k12.ar.us
Peace on the Plains
During the 17th Century and the early part of the 18th century the Spanish crown failed in most every attempt to make peace with or to subjicate the Commanche nation.
Bernard de Gálvez's pushed for a new policy for dealing with
these Indians. Gálvez's
recommendations were incorporated into a new model in 1779 and results
were immediately apparent. Juan Bautista de Anza, govenor of New Mexico
from 1778-1787, was just the man to properly carry out Gálvez's
policy and managed a lasting peace.
Others had made successful temporary treaties with the Commanches prior to Anza, but he was the first to achieve a substanial and lasting peace.
Anza used military force to pressure the Indians to sign a treaty, but
it was his fairness and Gálvez's policy that made the peace last.
Officially released as the Instructions of 1786, the policy offered
aid in the fight against mutual enemies and promised better treatment
of the Indians.
The results were that the Commances, with other Spanish allies, made war against the Apaches.
Fair treatment in the end brought peace to the Plains.
Martyrdom
On June 28, 1633, the Franciscan friars had their first martyr in Arizona. Friar Porras was given poisoned food by the Walpi.
In 1680 the Pueblo Indians revolted against the missionaries.
On August 9 the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona rose up in unison, resulting in the slaying of approximately 400 settlers. Only eleven of 33 padres survived.
Again, in 1751, Spanish priests were martyred during the Pima Revolt. At Caborca and Sonoita two Jesuits were murdered. Other priests were wounded and escaped by a breath.
Missions and ranches were burned and sacked up and down the frontier, and as at the Pueblos, Spanish settlement was temporarily stymied.
Paso por aqui el adelantado don ju de Oñate del descrubrymiento
de la mar del sur
a 16 de abril de 1605
Inscription Rock,
El Morro National Monument, New Mexico
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