Site-Wide Activity

A decent car ride away from my home is a hiking path that’s well worth the trip. It’s a picnic area named for a misunderstood stone carving, known locally as the slightly pejorative name ‘Squaw Rock,’ contrar […]

According to Cabeza de Vaca “Four naked unarmed outsiders were led by hundreds, even thousands, of Indians. They were fed and protected and passed off from one indigenous group to the next, as if they were prized […]

Chapter 8 of “A Land So Strange” describes Cabeza de Vaca’s, Estabanico’s, Dorantes’, and Castillo’s journey after they decide to venture more into the land and abandon the hopes of reaching European settlements. […]

According to the Mexican historian Andrés Reséndez, the four travelers “felt greatly disturbed and saddened that other Christians had already reached these remote lands and were causing so much harm to the n […]

Continuing the reading of  “a land so strange”, the author, Resédenz, this time presents us the story of those four survivors vastly changed status as they set themselves as the medicine men. Reading through the w […]

Chapter 8 of A Land So Strange exemplifies the changing roles that are taken by the four remaining survivors of the Florida expedition. Primarily, they are renown within several Indian communities as healers and […]

Mi nueva casa es muy bonita. Mi casa tiene muchos habitaciones. Tiene una cocina y dos salas. Hay algunas sofas en la sala. Hay algunos perros en mi casa y ellos son muy buenos. Hay ninguno gato o otro animal. […]

In Andrés Reséndez’s book A Land So Strange he follows the journey of Cabeza de Vaca, Dorantes, Castillo, and Estebancio. These four men were a part of a colonization group but through a series of unfortunate eve […]

Moda es muy importante. El otro día,  Taylor Swift llevaba una vestida rojo y los zapatos negros. Ella tiene pelo corto y rubio. Ariana Grande llevaba una camisa negra con los jeans. Ella tiene mucho ropa y m […]