The Coosa Chiefdom was a powerful Muskogean-speaking Native American paramount chiefdom centered in what are now northwestern Georgia and southeastern Tennessee, in the United States. The total popula
The protohistoric King site on the Coosa River, occupied during the mid to late 1500s
Coosa Historical Marker along Coosa River, outside Childersburg, Alabama
Hernando de Soto was a Spanish explorer and conquistador, who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula. He played an important role in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inc
Coosa chiefdom
…Tennessee and Alabama, has been estimated at 50,000. It was inhabited from at least 1400 until about 1600, and dominated several smaller chiefdoms. Hernando de Soto and his conquistadors visited Coosa on their expedition through the Southeast United States in 1539–1541, as did participants in Tristán de Luna's…
Anglo-American artist's impression of Hernando de Soto, published in 1858
Library of Congress' engraving. The Spanish caption reads: "HERNANDO DE SOTO: Extremaduran, one of the discoverers and conquerors of Peru: he travelled across all of Florida and defeated its previously invincible natives, he died on his expedition in the year 1542 at the age of 42".
De Soto's men burn Mabila, illustration by Herb Roe
Discovery of the Mississippi by William H. Powell (1823–1879) is a Romantic depiction of de Soto seeing the Mississippi River for the first time. It hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda.