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This is a List of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in the years 1539-1543. In May 1539, de Soto left Havana, Cuba with nine ships, over 620 men and 220 surviving horses and landed at Charlotte Harbor, Florida
Port Charlotte, Florida

Port Charlotte is a census-designated place in Charlotte County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 46,451 at the 2000 census....
. This began the 3 year odyssey through the Southeastern North American continent, from which de Soto and a large portion of his men wouldn't return. Along the way they met many varied Native American
Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples....
 groups, most of them belonging to the Mississippian culture
Mississippian culture

The Mississippian culture was a Mound builder Native Americans in the United States culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern United States, Eastern United States, and Southeastern United States United States from approximately 800 Common Era to 1500 Common Era, varying regionally....
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This is a List of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in the years 1539-1543. In May 1539, de Soto left Havana, Cuba with nine ships, over 620 men and 220 surviving horses and landed at Charlotte Harbor, Florida
Port Charlotte, Florida

Port Charlotte is a census-designated place in Charlotte County, Florida, Florida, United States. The population was 46,451 at the 2000 census....
. This began the 3 year odyssey through the Southeastern North American continent, from which de Soto and a large portion of his men wouldn't return. Along the way they met many varied Native American
Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples....
 groups, most of them belonging to the Mississippian culture
Mississippian culture

The Mississippian culture was a Mound builder Native Americans in the United States culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern United States, Eastern United States, and Southeastern United States United States from approximately 800 Common Era to 1500 Common Era, varying regionally....
. Only a very few of these cultures survived into the seventeenth century, and for the others, this is their only entry in the historical record.

Florida

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  • Acuera
    Acuera

    The Acuera were a Timucua people who flourished in north central Florida at the time of European arrival in the 16th Century but disappeared within a hundred years, possibly as a result of diseases brought by the explorers and later missionaries....
  • Ocale
    Ocala, Florida

    Ocala is a city in Marion County, Florida, Florida, United States. As of 2007, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 53,491....
  • Northern Utino
  • Uzachile
  • Yustaga
    Yustaga

    Yustaga may refer to:*The Yustaga, a Native American tribe that lived in the area of northern Florida surrounding the Suwannee River in the 1500s....
  • Potano
    Potano

    The Potano tribe lived in north-central Florida at the time of first European contact. Their territory included what is now Alachua County, Florida, the northern half of Marion County, Florida and the western part of Putnam County, Florida....
  • Alachua culture
    Alachua culture

    The Alachua culture is defined as a Late Woodland period Southeast period archaeological culture in north-central Florida, dating from around 700 to 1700....
  • Guale
    Guale

    Guale was a Native Americans in the United States chiefdom that became part of Spanish Florida's missionary system in the late 16th century. They lived along the coast of present-day Georgia and the Sea Islands....
  • Anhaica
    Anhaica

    .Anhaica was an Apalachee Indian town and capital of Apalachee Province located near Myers Park in the present-day city of Tallahassee, Florida, Florida....
  • Apalachee
    Apalachee

    The Apalachee are an Native Americans in the United States that lived in Apalachee Province, Florida, until the tribe was largely destroyed and dispersed in the 18th century....
  • Timucua
    Timucua

    The Timucua were an Native Americans in the United States people who lived in First Coast and North Central Florida Florida and southeast Georgia ....
  • Narváez expeditions "Bay of Horses"
    Narváez expedition

    The Narv?ez expedition was a Spain attempt to install P?nfilo de Narv?ez as adelantado of Spanish Florida during the years 1527 – 1528....


Georgia

  • Muskogean languages
    Muskogean languages

    Muskogean is an indigenous language family of the Southeastern United States. The Muskogean languages are generally divided into two rough branches, Eastern and Western, though these distinctions are the subject of some debate....
  • Capachequi
  • Ocute
  • Hitchiti
    Hitchiti

    The Hitchiti was a Muskogean tribe formerly residing chiefly in a town of the same name on the east bank of the Chattahoochee River, 4 miles below Chiaha, and possessing a narrow strip of good land bordering on the river, in west Georgia ....
  • Coosa chiefdom
    Coosa chiefdom

    The Coosa chiefdom was a powerful Native Americans in the United States chiefdom near what is now Gordon County, Georgia and Murray County, Georgia counties in Georgia , in the United States....


South Carolina

  • Hymahi
  • Cofitachequi
    Cofitachequi

    Cofitachequi was a Paramount chief encountered by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in South Carolina. The expeditions first encounter with the Chiefdom of Cofitachequi was in April of 1540, at the Mulberry Site, a large Platform mound site at the junction of Pine Tree Creek and the Wateree River, near present-day Camden, South Carolina....
  • Talimeco
  • Creek (people)


North Carolina

  • Joara
    Joara

    Joara was a large Native Americans in the United States settlement of the Mississippian culture located in what is now Burke County, North Carolina, North Carolina....
  • Cheraw (tribe)
    Cheraw (tribe)

    The Cheraw , were a tribe of Siouan-speaking Indigenous peoples of the Americas first encountered by Hernando De Soto in 1540. The name they called themselves is lost to history but the Cherokee called them ani-suwa'ii and the Catawba sara ....
  • Saura
    Saura

    For people surnamed Saura, click Saura .'For the Hindu denomination see Saura The Saura were a tribe of Native Americans in the United States who lived in the Piedmont area of North Carolina near the Sauratown Mountains, east of Pilot Mountain and north of the Yadkin River....
  • Chelaque
    Cherokee

    The Cherokee are a Native Americans in the United States people orginally from the Southeastern United States . They are linguistically connected to speakers of the Iroquoian language....


Tennessee

  • Chiska
    Chiska

    The Chisca were a tribe of Native Americans living in eastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia in the 1500s. They were encountered both by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in 1542 and by the Captain Juan Pardo Expedition in 1568....
  • Chiaha
    Chiaha

    Chiaha was a Native Americans in the United States chiefdom located in the lower French Broad River valley in modern East Tennessee, in the southeastern United States....
  • Coste
    Coushatta

    The Coushatta are a Native Americans in the United States people living primarily in the United States state of Louisiana. Most Coushatta live in Allen Parish, Louisiana, just north of the town of Elton, Louisiana, Louisiana, though a smaller number share a reservation near Livingston, Texas, Texas with the Alabama ....
  • Tali
    Toqua (Tennessee)

    Toqua is a prehistoric and historic Native Americans in the United States site in Monroe County, Tennessee, located in the southeastern United States....
  • Chalahume
    Chilhowee (Cherokee town)

    Chilhowee is a prehistoric and historic Native Americans in the United States site in Blount County, Tennessee and Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States....
  • Satapo
    Citico (Tellico archaeological site)

    Citico is a prehistoric and historic Native Americans in the United States site in Monroe County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States....


Alabama

  • Abihka
    Abihka

    The Abihka were a division of the Upper Creek people. Their main place of residence was in what is now Talladega County, Alabama. At times their name is used for all of the Upper Creeks....
  • Alibamu
    Alabama (people)

    The Alabama or Alibamu are a Southeastern tribes people of Native Americans in the United States.The Alabama language is part of the Muskogean languages language family, as is the language of the Creek people and Choctaw people, with whom the Alabama also share cultural features....
  • Chief Tuskaloosa
  • Choctaw
    Choctaw

    The Choctaw are a Native Americans in the United States people originally from the Southeastern United States . They are of the Muskogean languages group....
  • Coosa chiefdom
    Coosa chiefdom

    The Coosa chiefdom was a powerful Native Americans in the United States chiefdom near what is now Gordon County, Georgia and Murray County, Georgia counties in Georgia , in the United States....
  • Tali
    Tali

    Tali may refer to:...


Mississippi

  • Chicaza
    Chickasaw

    The Chickasaw are Native Americans in the United States people originally from the Southeastern United States . They are of the Muskogean linguistic group....
  • Quizquiz(Native American Tribe)
  • Quigate
  • Quigualtam
  • Natchez people
    Natchez people

    The Natchez are a Native Americans in the United States people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi....


Arkansas

  • Aquixo
  • Casqui
    Casqui

    Casqui was a Native Americans in the United States tribe discovered in 1541 by the Hernando de Soto expedition. This tribe inhabited Palisade in eastern Arkansas....
    , believed by many archaeologists to be located at the Parkin Archeological State Park
    Parkin Archeological State Park

    Parkin Archeological State Park, also known as Parkin Indian Mound, is an archeological site and state park in Parkin, Arkansas, Cross County, Arkansas, Arkansas....
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  • Pacaha
    Pacaha

    Pacaha was a Native American tribe encountered in 1541 by the Hernando de Soto expedition. This tribe inhabited fortified villages in what is today the northeastern portion of the U.S....
    , believed by many archaeologists to be located at the Nodena Site
    Nodena Site

    The Nodena Site is an archeological site east of Wilson, Arkansas and northeast of Reverie, Tennessee in Mississippi County, Arkansas, Arkansas, United States....
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  • Chaguate
  • Coligua
    Koroa

    The Koroa were one of the groups of indigenous people who lived in Mississippi prior to the European settlement of the region. They lived in the northwest of Mississippi in the Yazoo River basin....
  • Tunica
    Tunica-Biloxi

    The Tunica-Biloxi is a tribe of Native Americans in the United States living in Mississippi and east central Louisiana. They got their food by hunting, farming, and fishing....
  • Anilco
  • Guachoya
  • Quapaw
    Quapaw

    The Quapaw people are a tribe of Native Americans in the United States who historically resided on the west side of the Mississippi River in what is now the state of Arkansas....
  • Aays Caddo confederacy.
  • Naguatex
    Natchitoches (tribe)

    The Natchitoches or Natchitoch were one of the indigenous tribes in Louisiana of the Caddo Native Americans. In the early 17th century they were joined by some of the remnants of the Cadodaquiou, a tribe that had been largely killed and enslaved by the Chickasaw....


Texas

  • Caddo
    Caddo

    The Caddo Nation is a confederacy of several Southeastern tribes Native Americans in the United States tribes, who, in the 16th century, inhabited much of what is now East Texas, western Louisiana and portions of southern Arkansas and Oklahoma....
  • Nondacao
  • Hasinai
    Hasinai

    The Hasinai confederation was a large confederation of Caddoan languages-speaking Native Americans in the United States located between the Sabine River and Trinity River rivers in eastern Texas....
  • Soacatino
  • Adai (Native American culture)


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  • Hitchiti
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