The dense river chiefdoms whose war canoes chased de Soto's survivors downstream in 1543.
Vanished by the 1600s; only the Quapaw and Natchez remained when the French descended the river in 1673-82.
Describes the dense river chiefdoms whose war canoes chased de Soto's survivors down the Mississippi in 1543.
Broad cultural background to the Mississippi valley peoples and their disappearance (broad context).
Pauketat's popular-scholarly account of Cahokia covers the Mississippi Valley chiefdom world that preceded and surrounded the polities de Soto encountered; situates the river chiefdoms in their archaeological context.