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First Sentence

"A deep problem arises in speaking of the Native history of the American Southeast: Few Americans today realize that the South sustained a two-hundred fifty-year Spanish occupation, or that "La Florida," the lands the Spanish once pompously claimed, extended up the peninsula of Florida, north through Georgia and South Carolina, west to the Mississippiand even up into the Ohio Valley ' Modern amnesia concerning the Spanish tenure is unfortunate, for the southeastern response to first contact was vigorous in the sixteenth century, with the Guale Revolt, its capstone and its emblem"