The "Ideal" Conquest

Episode 24 of Brandon Seale's podcast on Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca.How the four expeditionaries translated their gospel into terms their Native American followers might understand. How the four expeditionaries then translated the Native American worldview into terms Castilians might understand. How they became apostles from the Indians. How they advocated for the full humanity of Native Americans. And how they came up short.Pages: f60v-63v in Zamora (1542) Edition as published by Adorno and Pautz (1999). Cover Art: "Historia de México a través de los siglos," 1929-35. By Diego Rivera, Palacio Nacional de México.Selected BibliographyAdorno, Rolena and Patrick Charles Pautz. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1999)Boyd Carolyn. Rock Art of the Lower Pecos (2013)Krieger, Alex. We Came Naked and Barefoot (2002)Reséndez, Andrés. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (2007)Stockdale, James Bond. “Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior” (1993)“Through the Eyes of the Explorer: Cabeza de Vaca on the South Texas Plains.” TexasBeyondHistory.Net (viewed July 6, 2020)Wittliff Collections (Texas State University) exhibition on Cabeza de Vaca (including a digitized copy of an original 1555 edition of La Relación) www.BrandonSeale.com