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Related: About this forumLost city found: Etzanoa of the great Wichita Nation
ARKANSAS CITY
Make note of the name Etzanoa, a long-lost city. Donald Blakeslee says hes found it.
The discovery could put south-central Kansas on the map as the second-biggest settlement of Native Americans found in the United States, Blakeslee said. And its now, finally, the known location of a 1601 battle pitting outnumbered Spaniards firing cannon into waves of attacking Indian warriors.
Etzanoa has remained a mystery for 400 years. Archaeologists could not find it. Historians thought reports of a permanent settlement with 20,000 Native Americans in it were exaggerated.
But here in Arkansas City, at the confluence of the Walnut and Arkansas Rivers, Blakeslee, an anthropologist and archaeologist at Wichita State University, has found evidence of a massive town stretching across thousands of acres of bluffs and rich bottomland along two rivers. What clinched it was the discovery, by a high school kid, of a half-inch iron cannon ball.
He even found a still-functional water shrine, depicting communication with the spirit world, carved into a limestone boulder in Tami and Greg Norwoods backyard.
Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/news/state/article144968264.html#storylink=cpy
mopinko
(70,388 posts)hope they are respectful.
dhill926
(16,390 posts)amazing this occurred just 400 years ago, and we're only now discovering it.
Bayard
(22,241 posts)I've never even heard of this before. Will have to research on the web.
Thanks for posting!
niyad
(113,964 posts)niyad
(113,964 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,682 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,682 posts)The people who were here, clearly minding their own business, were precious, and deserve respect, no matter how long it's going to take.