Bøger af Charles M. Hudson

Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the US Southeast. Until the 1998 publication of Charles M. Hudson's Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun/em>, De Soto's path had been a mystery. With this book, anthropologist Hudson offers a solution to the question, ""Where did de Soto go?

Cast as a series of conversations between Domingo de la Anunciacion, a real-life Spanish priest who travelled to the Coosa chiefdom around 1559, and the Raven, a fictional tribal elder, this book attempts to reconstruct the worldview of the Indians of the late prehistoric Southeast.

Until its use declined in the nineteenth century, Indians of the southeastern US were devoted to a caffeinated beverage commonly known as black drink. This study details botanical, clinical, spiritual, historical, and material aspects of black drink, including its importance not only to Native Americans, but also their Euro-American contemporaries.