1. Chapter 5.2:
Spanish Explore Texas

2. Essential Question:
How did the Narvaez expedition end, and what events led to this outcome?

3. Pineda Explores the Gulf Coast
Alonso Alvarez de Pineda—drew the first map of the Texas Gulf Coast

4. Narvaez & the “Island of Misfortune”
1527: lands near in present-day Florida
Told they could find gold at Apalachee
Divides Forces
Panfilo de Narvaez

5. Narvaez & the “Island of Misfortune”
Become lost in swamps
No gold found
Could not find ships
Built small, flimsy boats

6. Narvaez & the “Island of Misfortune”
Storm washed three ships into Matagorda Bay
Narvaez drowns
Two ship land on a Texas island— Cabeza de Vaca called it “Malhado”

7. Narvaez & the “Island of Misfortune”
Cabeza de Vaca—Spaniard who spent 8 years among the Texas Indians during the 1500s
Cabeza de Vaca

9. Narvaez & the “Island of Misfortune”
Worked as a servant and a healer
Traveled along the Texas coast gathering sea shells and mesquite beans to trade for animals skins

10. The Spaniards’ Adventures in Texas
Cabeza de Vaca meets three others
Estevanico—North African
Cabeza de Vaca removed an arrowhead from a man’s chest and stitched up the wound—fame as a healer helped him survive.

11. The Spaniards’ Adventures in Texas
Estevanico had skills communicating with different Indian groups
Estevanico

12. The Spaniards’ Adventures in Texas
1536: The four lost explorers come across a group of Spanish soldiers
Taken to Mexico & returned to Spain

13. Cabeza de Vaca
Estevanico