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Álvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca

Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1542

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What types of factual knowledge can we glean from Cabeza de Vaca’s chronicle of the Narváez expedition and his subsequent peregrinations through the American southwest and northern Mexico?

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How did Cabeza de Vaca assimilate with the Indigenous people he encountered? How did he not?

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Why does Cabeza de Vaca never describe individual Indigenous men or women? Can we tell whether he formed friendships with any Indigenous people?

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