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DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Schmader.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In early 1540, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado led a large exploration from Mexico’s west coast into the American Southwest, searching for an overland route to Asia. Coronado enlisted 360 Europeans and 1,300 or more Mexican Indigenous soldiers (indios amigos) to achieve Spain’s goal of...