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Cabeza de Vaca

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Ca·be·za de Va·ca  (k-bz dk, kä-vthä kä), Álvar Núñez 1490?-1557?
Spanish explorer and colonial administrator who explored parts of present-day Florida, Texas, and Mexico and aroused Spain's interest in the region with his vivid stories of opportunities.


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First Dreamers is a chapter that explores ancient legends of the Tohono O'Odham Indians,; it is followed by Two Dreams Meet, taken from a narrative by Cabeza de Vaca.
Intricately revealing of this highly engaging and intimate tale of Knowland's spiritual and psychological struggles as his world quickly falls down around him, Shadow Realities carries its readers through an ever-thickening plot as the journal of the sixteenth-century explorer, Cabeza de Vaca mysteriously interrelates with the story line.
1539: fray marcos de niza with black Estevan after the long explorations of cabeza de vaca came seeking the "seven great cities of gold" and Hampsawan and Hawikuh and Ke'tchina and Kwa'kina and Kyakime and K'yanawe and Matsaki were transformed through the magic of desire into the golden cities of the cibola .
 
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