ABSTRACT
A perspective on North America at 1600 should recognize that historically documented European discoveries of American First Nations began more than a century before 1600 and continued well into the nineteenth century. At 1600, indigenous nations in Florida had already suffered De Soto’s rapacious army sixty years previous and the Spanish colony at St. Augustine for thirty-five years. West of the Appalachians, from two to ten or more generations would live independent of alien imperialism.
