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Chickasaws in Southeast US drove out de Soto, repurposed his metal


In the 1500s, a Spanish explorer named Hernando de Soto embarked on a lengthy expedition across the Southeastern United States in search of wealthy empires and precious metals, like others found in Peru with the Inca people.
Instead, de Soto and his team found powerful chiefdoms of Native American peoples throughout what is now Florida and other nearby states. One such group was the Chickasaw Nation in Mississippi.
According to Charlie Cobb, curator of historical archaeology with the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida, de Soto wintered in the town of Chikasha and was supported with housing and food by the local people and their leader, known as Chikasha Minko. But de Soto overstayed his welcome, and near the spring of 1541, the Chickasaws attacked the Spanish, who hastily retreated and left behind many of their goods. ....

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