Title: Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa
First published: 2003
Description: "Cast as a series of conversations between Domingo de la Anunciacion, a real-life Spanish priest who traveled to the Coosa chiefdom around 1559, and the Raven, a fictional tribal elder, Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa attempts to reconstruct the worldview of the Indians of the late prehistoric Southeast.

Mediating the exchange between the two men is Teresa, a character modeled on a Coosa woman captured some twenty years earlier by the Hernando de Soto expedition and taken to Mexico, where she learned Spanish and became a Christian convert.".

"Through story and legend, the Raven teaches Anunciacion about the rituals, traditions, and culture of the Coosa. He tells of how the Coosa world came to be and recounts tales of the birds and animals - real and mythical - that share that world. From these engaging conversations emerges a fascinating glimpse inside the Coosa belief system and an enhanced understanding of the native people who inhabited the ancient South."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, Mississippian culture, Coosa Indians, Discoveries in geography, Spaniards, Explorers, Southern states, fiction, Fiction, historical
Places: Southern States
People: Domingo de la Anunciación Father (1510 or 11-1591), Tristán de Luna y Arellano (1510-1630)
LC classification: PS3608.U343 C66 2003