In Florida the great conquistador hoped to find a Golconda.
Instead, he found a Golgotha. An American Heritage Book
Selection Before the days of the explorers, the Mississippi was
an Indian river. Spreading in a vast belt from the Great Lakes
to the Gulf of Mexico was a multitude of tribes—Fox, Potawatomi,
Kickapoo, Iowa, Illinois, Winnebago, Miami, Masouten, Chickasaw,
Oto, Quapaw, and others. These Indians were in a constant state
of turmoil, fighting one another and moving up and clown the
river. Even the Sioux, now associated with the Great Plains,
were once a river tribe and paddled fleets of war canoes on the
upper Mississippi.Read more »