The Incredible Journey of Cabeza De Vaca (1527-1536)
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In 1536, when slave catchers near modern day Culiacán, Mexico, saw four bedraggled travellers approach them in the desert heat, they were shocked to discover that the men were Christians, and spoke Spanish. They were the last surviving members of the ill-fated Narváez expedition to Florida in 1527 and they had lived in the wild expanse of North America, cut off from their homeland and the rest of civilisation as they knew it, for the last nine years...
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History Time love your videos, the full story of Cabrera de Vac a can be found in A Land So Strange, a great non fiction book. They were meant to go to northern Mexico, not Florida, it narvaez hired a terrible pilot.
He made his way down to Brazil and from there was going to head to Buenos Aires colony but along the way found all the Spanish going the opposite direction, Buenos Aires was taken by Indian tribes and those were the only ones to make it out alive and were headed to Paraguay, he went to Paraguay as well and became the first governor of Assunción (today's Paraguay capital). When he arrived the colonizers had turned the city into total chaos, he fought with the current leaders and showed the papers that proved he was appointed by the Spanish king to be the ruler of the colony and began to put order in the colony.
One day at night his enemies arrested him, forged documents and sent him back to Spain where he was prosecuted on trumped upcharges, the process took 7 years and he was sentenced to be exiled in Algeria where he died.
In America people only know the version about his time in Florida all the way to Mexico.
This man walked 8000km naked . Theres so much more I could spend all day talking about this guy.
His background is possible to study all the way back to the 1200's when his family was given their noble title for defending Spain against the Arab invasion who were established in Granada and ready to invade Europe.
The house of Cabeza de Vaca became nobility in this period.
Thats my ancestor and his ancestor is Martin Alhaja, a shepherd, who basically made the reconquista possible with the power of cow heads (he marked a path with cow heads to lead the Spanish army up a pass to defeat a moorish force). He got his name Cabeza De Vaca as a reward for his service.
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That’s so fucking cool dude
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Amazing! I first read about the cow heads in a book, and now I’m writing to the man’s descendant…
Viva España!⚔️❤️🔥🛡️
Cabeza de Vaca was in his 40's when he went through this torturous trip of 9 years. A soldier earlier in life, he used some knowledge of surgery and how to treat wounds to cure some Indians with the help of local medicine plants, becoming a "miracle" medicine man with the natives, actually developing a following between them. He defended them for the rest of his life.
There's another amazing adventure that happened at almost the same time, A Spanish involved in the conquest of Peru named Francisco de Orellana, was part of an expedition over the Andes range in South America for the purpose of exploring the Amazon. They reached the origin of the River Amazon, and followed it all the way to the Atlantic ocean! Just a handful made it alive after all kinds of setbacks, I recommend it!
If your wondering why he was named after a cows head..
In 1212 Martin Alhaja, a shepherd, placed a cow skull at a key access point along a road through Despenaperros Pass. The skull marked where King Alfonso VIII could work his army around the Almohad Caliphate at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. Thanks to the shepherd's assistance King Alfonso VIII won a resounding victory over the Berber-Muslim army that marked the beginning of the end of the Almohad dominance in the Iberian Peninsula. In exchange for his assistance Martin Alhaja was granted the title Cabeza de Vaca, complete with a coat of arms depicting a cow skull.
His mother last name was Cabeza De Vaca. In Spanish we always mention our mothers last name, not just the father.
This is true its in the foreword of his book.
Hey guys! Im one of his descendants. Me and my dad (Marcus c. De Baca) are very fascinated by his story and proud for your research. My dad is from San Diego and Because he has that Explorer's blood, he travelled to Greece, met my mother and here We are. He has written a historical novel inspired by Cabeza De Baca named as "The Western Gate"
I heard several conquistadores were Greek. The painter El Greco was of course, Greek. Juan Garrido was a conquistador from the Congo, showing Spain wasn't racist like the British.
I'm related to him.
Apparently lots of people are related to him because my last name is also De Vaca💀
Mine too
Definitely one of the baddest dudes to ever live and grace this planet; alongside captain Cook. True explorers and a whole different breed than men today.
I have his book “Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America” translated by Cyclone Covey and it is amazing. I have read it twice now and each time I learn something new.
I suddenly would love to read this guy's entire book
It's an amazing read. Highly recommend it. This video barely scratches the surface of what happened
History Time oh I bet XD this might become another Williamson-esque project for me next summer
You can download it for free from Project Gutenberg
archive.org/details/journeyofalvarnu00nune
thank you
@ arktzen You're welcome. It's a good read. I blogged it, last para was " I found this an engrossing and interesting account, far from a dry historical document. Cabeza de Vaca's straightforwardness does not diminish the reader's understanding of the severity of his trials and tribulations, and his frequent breaks into chapters describing the landscape, peoples, their food-gathering, hunting techniques, social customs, war ettiquette etc., keep the reader's interest up.".
What a story. A true explorer and adventurer.
I remember doing a project on this guy in fifth grade, it was a really interesting story no one talks about.
Fascinating guy. Tons more similar stories on the way.
The Black Legend misleads millions to belittle Spain, and a story of how the Spanish were in the US before it was the US gives glory to Spaniards many want to suppress. The Spanish Empire was the biggest in history because during the Iberian Union the Spanish ruled all waves with the Portuguese as second-class citizens whereas the British, who would come to have an empire thanks to Spain having the balls to cross the Atlantic opening a door of opportunity for the British and the Dutch and the French, always had to share every ocean with France and Spain who destroyed the British Armada at Cartagena de Indias. The Brits admit seas count with their song "Hail Britannia! Britannia rules the waves!" Only hypocrites count British or Mongol wastelands but not the Spanish lake, the Pacific Ocean, with many more resources and trade routes.
@@scintillam_dei In this planet Spain was FIRST. Non Plus Ultra. NONE. Best luck to all (including the perfidy Albion folk), in the next planet. In this was Spain forever and ever the first planetary empire.
We , all millions of people who are mexicans / Latinos/ Hispanics do .
This is excellent! Great Job. I really enjoy your approach when it comes to history and commentaries.
Thanks mate- nice of you to say so!
Thank you for doing a video! There isn't enough about the Spanish Empire and the indigenous mesoamericans pre and post Spanish contact. It's SUCH a fascinating and very important part of world history that barely gets touched in English language content. More please!! Great stuff.
They dont want you to know of the first Europeans in USA and all Americas. The ones that made the maps that the English used to come to USA.
@@feetgoaroundfullflapsC The Spanish Empire was the biggest ever. The British had to share all wavs. The Spanish Emperor, no ocean save for three seas with the Turks: the Mediterranean, the Red and the Persian Gulf. Earth is more water than land, so ESPAÑA had the biggest empire in history! :-)
I’ve been waiting for a movie about cabeza de vaca for yrs, like at least 20 yrs.
There is one
Amazing!!!! Thank you.
Thanks for this, I had to research this guy for school
We are learning this in school!
I just finished the audio book on audible of “A land so strange” And came here to see a map of the journey. Call probably the most incredible story of yet heard about European contact with indigenous peoples in North America
A had to watch this for Texas History, thanks for standing out for my teacher! 👨🏻🏫
Funny thing is that Cabeza De Vaca means "Head of the Cow" in Spanish xD Great video, absolutely fascinating stuff!
History With Hilbert I did not know that! what an unusual surname!
History Time A common teasing nickname in spanish is to call someone a "cabeza de" insert animal name here like "cabeza de caballo" or "cabeza de tiburon" those two are the ones I've heard most commonly used, meaning horse-head and shark-head, respectively. Cabeza de Vaca here is the only person I've ever heard to have that as a surname.
Actually is "cow head".
History With Hilbert You're right. The name comes from the time of the iberean reconquista, from the battle scene where his ancestor was giving a minor nobility title for gallantry in battle and the surname, almost a nickname of Cabeza de Vaca.
The interesting part of that is that there is whole reason behind that name!
Mel Gibson needs to direct this on film. Amazing history that blows holes in the Liberal idea Europeans brought slavery to America.
Mel worships Satan. The Passion of the Christ is a movie with masonic shit like the number of lashes given to the hippie he tries to pass off as what Jesus would have looked like. Jesus didn't have long hair. The reason for that nonsense is that Baphomet is androgynous, and a guy with long hair has an androgynous look, like Michael Jackson. There is a motif in the movie about guys having one eye darkened, even on the poster of just one side showing only one eye. It's deliberate and matches the Bible saying Anti-Christ shall lose an eye. There is a luciferian torch in broad daylight during the whipping scene, so there's no ALIBI for that other than that it represents LVCIFER (or more accurately, he who masquerades as an angel of light). There is more to cover but this suffices.
They didn’t bring the idea of slavery they brought much worse actual slaves. By the late 1700s slavery was based on skin color passed through legislation. It became an institution and therefore a belief that one man is inferior to another. Its not a liberal or conservative idea. It was called the middle passage and it took a century to evolve.
If you ever get chance I would really like to see some videos on the Spanish Empire covering how they where founded and the rise and fall of the empire.
The Kingdom of Leon evolved from the remnants of the Visigothic Kingdom who were conquered by the Moors, the Reconquista was initiated from the Kingdom of Castile (who broke off from the Kingdom of Leon), pushing out the Moors, the knowledge and power they inherited helped them fund the expedition to the Americas and that sealed Spain as an Empire. They conquered territory around the world, including the Philippines, and much of that is owed to the Spanish Tercios, using a mix of lance and gunpowder. During the revolutionary era, the United States gained more power, having already lost many of its former colonies, Spain began losing its dominance after the Spanish-American war.
@@Native_Creation👏👏👏 thanks I started listening to flash point history about year and half ago, this channel is easily the best on spanish history and he still on the reconquista I can't wait until he cover the rest of spanish history.
i love this story
I live about 20 miles north of where De Vacas raggedy raft sailed west along Northern gulf , fascinating
Learned of him from Richard Grant's book.
I wonder how badass this guy was to survive. I heard he was captured and taken as a slave several times, I think that's in the book American Nomad.
Where do you find your music? Do you compose?
Can i be told what the first song in the background is called please
This guy was a New Christian, his ancestors were Sephardic Jews. He was the first European to visit all these places, but then he embarked on a new adventure in South America, which a lot of people don’t talk about; he went to Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. He was the first European to see the Iguaçu Falls in Brazil, but he was later betrayed by Basque Conquistadors because he defended the Natives.
Exactly!
my god this man was the most badass man who've ever existed okay ?
Falso: Cabeza de Vaca tenía ascendencia hidalga. Quizás lo estás confundiendo con algún otro conquistador.
No, he wasn't jewish. Stop to stealing our history.
What is the song which you used ?
where did you find the song?Also it's 1527 not 1536
What song is used?
What's the name of the song in the background? Does anyone know?
One step to hell or so
Basil Poledouris is the author. The name of the song I don't know.
I’m here bc of Joe Rogen. He just posted this read on his IG. May 10th 2021
Hello History In Time, could you do a History on the Soldados De Cuera (Leather Jacket Soldiers)? They fought for Spanish Crown in New Spain's Frontier areas. Most of them were Mestizos or Full Blooded Hispanized Indians.
Person who is editing the video: Sir What do we put in the background for music
Director: play pirate of the Caribbean in the background .
music way too loud
00:46 storms at sea killed half of the horses to be used. That sealed the fate of the expedition.
DEVS VVLT
That has to be the biggest spin on a story in history. He and his Slave/friend Esteban were the only two survivors. His journals are still there to read. he was a slave no less than 6 times. Tribes would sell him and Esteban from place to place. Of course the Indians were amazed by Esteban's black skin, they were treated harshly. Finally after De baca "Healed: a child, he says with prayer and his cross, the natives thought he was a healer and brought him to mexico aster 91/2 years.Esteban was killed by Indians sadly enough 3 years later.
Indians are from India.
@Iouiis Indians care. I care. Native Americans who care about reality care.
Who knew. Tks baby.
Read the book "a land so strange".
Chopping off ears and noses of the locals tends to make them hostile.
Thank you for doing a video like this. Seriously, thank you very much. Spanish people will never properly know their heroes, and videos like this one are helping to change that.
He will win in the TV show called "Survivor".
The historical inaccuracies are massive.
Spaniards had been to Florida, the journals from the expedition even mention finding their exact encampment locations.
How could the expedition have translators for a language of a yet undiscovered people?
The 1st natives attacked them out of hand. The next group's head in slave them and subjugated them.
It wasn't a grassroots Christianity, they were very Catholic.
Estevanico was black, a Moorish convert who would gain his freedom and lead his own expeditions until killed by hostile tribes.
The projections of deaths from disease have been roundly discredited.
One of the reasons for this mistake was that many of the O'Odham people were 2 village people, meaning that they were transitory between 2 different villages, leaving one of the villages abandoned. Many observers made the mistake of thinking that the uninhabited village had no population. The population was simply in the other village which they maintained.
The expedition was short on supplies because of terrible storms that annihilated their supply wagons and wrecked their ships. They were not ignorant of the supplies that would be required. They had the supplies, ridiculously bad whether removed the supplies.
Initially I present my excuses because my English is not as good as I would like, but perhaps my text may be understood
It is well known that Hollywood has been and actually is the biggest dreams factory all over the world, but not only this but also a history library.
The United States probably is the only country where two empires with different cultures live together despite their military old encounters, and both countries left a deep trace of their steps through North American lands. Two empires that dominated the world. Spain landed on U.S. in 1513. British did it on 1607.
The whole films production of Hollywood is focused only to British inheritance, and it causes that a great part of US citizens has any knowledge about the history of their country, apart from the responsibility of the colleges and universities. What happen in the lands of the actual U.S, between 1513-1607?
And I wonder: why Hollywood don't exploit the immense story of the Spanish inheritance? A country that dominated great zones of Europe, America, Africa and Asia. What about the help that Spain gave to the American Revolution? Galvez is only a part of the History.
A long list of unknown characters eagerly awaits the arrival of Hollywood researchers, historians and producers who have the courage to deepen in the early roots of the other part of their own history, as well as Universities.
And sometimes I wonder: Is or was there any political (or other type) reason to hide the history of the United States
Antonio Solano 13rd April
CID CAMPEADOR
Ambos; política....y la otra.
The Spanish landed in Cuba & Puerto Rico which is part if the United States technically (except Cuba stopped being) before then, mainland U.S. like you said.
9 years wandering around south of present USA and northern Mexico. Opened the doors of this great nation of USA.
Somehow this one flew over my radar. Check out Forgottenbooks.com There is a book titled "America" that is a collection of Spanish journals and letters on the different regions of the Americas.
The Spanish Empire outlawed slavery in 1543
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IM FUCKIN RELATED TO THIS GUY!!!
Im actualy reading about cabeza de vaca in school also its weird that his name means head of the cow
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Karawkawa Tribe is still here in Texas . Matagorda county to this day… I’ve done my family genealogy my 4th great grandfather were born in New Spain which is Currently texas before colonization. My mom’s side Surname Saucedo. With are roots trace to Mexico.
I did Cabeza De Vaca when i was in 4th grade
There’s bog burials in Windover Florida that are 9,000 years old and not related to modern Native Americans. They wore textile clothing.
unbelievable inded
Well the sad part is that governer Narverz betrayed them he was way to selfish for gold.
The narrator claims this was the first European expedition to set foot in Florida. However, didn’t Ponce de Leon lead an earlier expedition?
que manía con meter la leyenda negra, empiezas un vídeo para ver algo de Cabeza de Vaca, 3 minutos, y termina con Bartolomé de las Casas, empiezo a ver poca seriedad en lo tocante al tema de la liberación de américa, que no conquista, por parte de España, te tengo fichado
A dang hero, proud of my Spaniard heritage!
The narration is overpowered by music and sound effects. So painful to hear.
I don't get the need for music in these pieces, add more photos or drawings instead if you think people need to be constantly stimulated.
I thought it worked well, I liked it
anyone else here from school?
yuhhh
H3art 0f C0urege is the track
Joe rogan brought me here history rules !
You left out a few things there lol
his name is kinda funny it translates to cows head.
That’s my ancestor no lie
Mine too!!
No he is not..
Mine to
What’s that an ancestor
I’m the only watching this bc us history😐
Im not even capping his name was changed to “baca” because he didnt want his last name to be you know cow so he did. My dads mom is a baca!
You can download Cabeza de Vaca's original account (translated to English) for free from Project Gutenberg
archive.org/details/journeyofalvarnu00nune
mustapha al zammouri estevanico
Su nombre realmente fue Alvar, que actualmente seria Álvaro, un nombre muy normal en España, y el apellido Cabeza de Vaca, era un honor en aquellos tiempos, pues el origen era como consecuencia de una gran batalla ganada a los árabes en la lucha entre los cristianos, "Las navas de Tolosa", el escribió un libro "NAUFRAGOS" que relata las vivencias sufridas en el sur de los EEUU. Sin duda un gran ser humano, digno de grandes películas, pero la política ante española en la historia la oculta, pero eso no impide, EEUU, tiene una deuda con España.
His name literally translates to," Cow's Head" in Spanish
That must of sucked to have lived with a name like that.
I think it's badass and Spanish is my first language
From the Spaniard perspective no it doesn't. It's just that you cannot outgrow highschool.
@@Hengpar2001 I was referring to his name in the English sense. Nice low-blow insult though.
@@Umi_2024 my apologies, I take it back.
¡Viva España!
La imperial no la liberal que da asco ahora.
Came here from joe
So he only live to the age 9
There was a white red haired tribe in American long before we are taught in school there are findings people with Australia aboriginal blood in tribes to black people were in American long before slaves to weird
👑RÍOS FAMILY 👑 it refers to the ROYAL HOUSE OF ASTURIAS where the RÍOS👑 last name most likely originated from.👑
no, its just lake.
@@rodbtw 👑RIOS FAMILY 👑 DERIVED FROM THE ROYAL HOUSE of ASTURIAS, CELTS and VISIGOTH KING LIUVIGILD DYNASTY👑
@@elwerouno1 no, its just a last name. search up any last name and it'll say the same thing
@@rodbtw HA LOL
@@rodbtwManuel de Godoy Álvarez de Faria Ríos 👑 (May 12, 1767 - October 4, 1851) Prince of Spain, 1st Duke of Alcudia, 1st Duke of Sueca, 1st Baron of Mascalbo 👑🤴
Is anybody else here for homework?
How about doing it from the other perspective. The incredible journey of us natives when we encountered Cabeza de Vaca. Oh wait, you won’t. Only we do that - because, you know, historiography is biased to Europeans.
1536
BRUHHHHHHHHHHH
I am actually a descendant of the C.D. Vaca family, so this is just me researching my ancestry.
Nice
CABEZA DE VACA 😂🤣
It means ...
COW'S HEAD
and cows head means cabeza de vaca
@@jamesalexander3530
That 's what i said.
Beside Spanish, or English, i also can tranlate it to Portuguese, French, or Italien.
Most latin spoken languages except from Armenia.
Yup... i'm such a smart guy 🤪
lol that weird and funny
cowherd
Glory to SPAIN !
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