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**Arizona marks the spot: Locating the first European settlement in the American Southwest**
"_At Suya there is evidence for a pitched battle, consistent with documentary accounts. This marks this conflict as the first successful Native American uprising in the continental US. This distinction results from the fact that Spaniards did not return to what would become southern Arizona for 150 years, although they would probe and settle other portions of the American Southwest later in the sixteenth century._"
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Arizona marks the spot: Locating the first European settlement in the American Southwest « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog
Recent Coronado Expedition (1539-1542) research has produced abundant and rich evidence pointing to the surprising interpretation that the first European settlement in the American Southwest was established in southern Arizona in 1541. The first European settlement was established in the western US in 1541 as part of the 1539-1542 Coronado expedition. The Spanish settlement of