The Department of Anthropology invites a range of experts to discuss the relevance of the Coronado Expedition discoveries to Arizona's O'odham.

Recent discoveries of sites relating to the Francisco Vázquez de Coronado expedition of 1539/1540-1542 significantly alter perceptions of where the expedition went and which native populations were encountered. Five new sites represent the first from this expedition in Arizona and the implications for the O’odham are substantial, especially those relating to the occupation and attack of an expedition townsite. Provided are ethnographic details relating to first contact, information on the earliest successful Native American rebellion in the continental US, and ways in which these findings are becoming relevant to descendant populations whose ancestors received and then repelled these first Europeans.