Joara
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Joara is a tale depicting the 1st organized attempt to bring civilization, on Spanish terms, into the interior of North America. It was an 18 month experience in cultural transformation that ended in April of 1568. The archeologists who are still uncovering the remains of Fort San Juan in the town of Joara have said, its burned buildings offer a window onto a single historical event: the fiery destruction of the fort and the end of Spanish colonial ambitions in Northern La Florida. The 4 main characters of the story; 3 young Portuguese men and an older Spanish Gypsy arrive in America with much baggage, as told in the Intro. and in the prequel to Joara entitled Belmonte. Ruy, Davide, Daniel and Juancinto arrive in summer of 1566 at the Spanish colony of Santa Elena on the SC coast. They are part of a 250 man Expedition led by Capt. Juan Pardo, who is ordered to take half his men and find food for the colony. In addition he is to find a short-cut across the Appalachians to the silver mines in Mexico and declare all lands for King Phillip, make friends with the Indians, tax them and convert them to Catholicism. Setting out on the 1st of Dec., 1566, the expedition arrives at the Chiefdom of Joara on Christmas day. Joara is a thriving collection of Catawba villages that de Soto had written about 27 years previously. Seeing snow on the distant Blue Ridge Mts., Pardo decides not to cross them. He builds a fort named Fort San Juan and suddenly returns to Santa Elena on rumor of an anticipated French attack.Pardo leaves 30 men in Joara, including our 4 protagonists. Sgt. Hernando Moyano is left in charge of the garrison. Moyano is a treasurer seeker and takes 20 soldiers, including Juancinto and Daniel, into the mountains and massacres a tribe called Chisca, rumored to have gold. Moyano then proceeds down rivers to a large Creek town called Olamico, located on an island in the French Broad. They build a small fort and remain in Olamico for almost a years in a fearful limbo
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