Скачать или смотреть Conquistadors and Chiefdoms: The Hidden History of 40HA84 with Ava Lowery | MBLS 2025

The 20th Annual Rita Vital Memorial Moccasin Bend Fall Lecture Series begins on Monday, September 22 at 7:00 pm in the Tennessee Aquarium River Journey Auditorium.

Ava Lowery will utilize historical accounts and archaeological evidence to illustrate the complex social and military relationships between and within the Coosa chiefdom along with Spanish conquistador Tristán de Luna’s 1560 expedition into the interior Southeast. With Little Owl Village at Audubon Acres and other local archaeological sites as the setting, there is a significant framework for a discussion of the sociopolitical environment of the Mississippian period in the Chattanooga area during early European contact, colonial power dynamics, struggles for sovereignty within the Native population, and narratives of power in the context of practicing cultural preservation today.