Charles M. Hudson (author)
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University of Georgia
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, and is one of the foremost authorities on the history and culture of the Indians of the U.S. Southeast.
Degrees
Charles Melvin Hudson Jr. http://www.minority.unc.edu/announce/BillJenkins/UniversityDay.htm#daa- baccalaureate degree with high distinction at the University of KentuckyUniversity of KentuckyThe University of Kentucky, also known as UK, is a public co-educational university and is one of the state's two land-grant universities, located in Lexington, Kentucky...
1958 - Anthropology, M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1962
- Anthropology, Ph. D University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1965
de Soto Expedition
In 1984, Hudson and fellow researchers Marvin T. Smith and Chester DePratter published a route for de Soto's Georgia travels that had him crossing the Ocmulgee RiverOcmulgee River
The Ocmulgee River is a tributary of the Altamaha River, approximately 255 mi long, in the U.S. state of Georgia...
near Macon.
Hudson and his colleagues mapped de Soto's route using written accounts of three men traveling with the explorer and matching them with geographic features and archaeological evidence of Indian settlements they believed the explorer encountered. Hudson said what made his proposed route stand up to scrutiny was that the Indian sites formed a chain across the state. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-12-15-desoto_N.htm
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Influence
Dr. Hudsons work is cited by many other writers, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. These authors include but are not limited to the following list.- Paul D. Welch- Associate Professor at Southern Illinois UniversitySouthern Illinois UniversitySouthern Illinois University is a state university system based in Carbondale, Illinois, in the Southern Illinois region of the state, with multiple campuses...
. - Patricia Galloway-Associate Professor at University of Texas-Austin.
- Theda Perdue-Professor of Southern Culture at University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
. - Kathleen DuVal- Assistant Professor of Southern Culture at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- David Ewing DuncanDavid Ewing DuncanDavid Ewing Duncan is an American journalist, author and broadcaster with a special emphasis on new discoveries and their implications in biotechnology and the life sciences; he also reports on the environment and on green technologies...
- Journalist and author, and a television and radio producer and correspondent. - Peter Peregrine- Professor of Anthropology at Purdue UniversityPurdue UniversityPurdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
. - Stephen Cornell- Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of ArizonaUniversity of ArizonaThe University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...
. - Louis L'AmourLouis L'AmourLouis Dearborn L'Amour was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western fiction novels , however he also wrote historical fiction , science fiction , nonfiction , as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into movies...
- American author of primarily Western fiction. - J. William Harris- Professor of History, University of New HampshireUniversity of New HampshireThe University of New Hampshire is a public university in the University System of New Hampshire , United States. The main campus is in Durham, New Hampshire. An additional campus is located in Manchester. With over 15,000 students, UNH is the largest university in New Hampshire. The university is...
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Selected works by Charles M. Hudson
- Hudson, Charles M., The Southeastern Indians. University of Tennessee Press. 1976. ISBN 0-87049-248-9
- Hudson, Charles M., Black Drink: A Native American Tea. University of Georgia Press. 1979. ISBN 0-8203-0462-X
- Hudson, Charles M., Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando De Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms, University of Georgia Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8203-1888-4
- Hudson, Charles M., Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa. University of North Carolina Press. 2003. ISBN 0-8078-5421-2
- Hudson, Charles M. and Carmen Chaves Tesser, The Forgotten Centuries. University of Georgia Press. 1994. ISBN 0-8203-1654-7
- Hudson, Charles M. (Editor), Red, White, and Black.
See also
- Mississippian cultureMississippian cultureThe Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally....
- Southeastern Ceremonial ComplexSoutheastern Ceremonial ComplexThe Southeastern Ceremonial Complex is the name given to the regional stylistic similarity of artifacts, iconography, ceremonies, and mythology of the Mississippian culture that coincided with their adoption of maize agriculture and chiefdom-level complex social organization from...
- ChunkeyChunkeyChunkey is a game of Native American origin. It was played by rolling disc shaped stones across the ground and throwing spears at them in an attempt to place the spear as close to the stopped stone as possible...
- Coosa chiefdomCoosa chiefdomThe Coosa chiefdom was a powerful Native American paramount chiefdom near what are now Gordon and Murray counties in Georgia, in the United States. It was inhabited from about 1400 until about 1600, and dominated several smaller chiefdoms...
- Black drinkBlack drinkBlack drink was the name given by colonists to a ritual beverage called Asi, brewed by Native Americans in the Southeastern United States...
- Hernando de Soto
- University of GeorgiaUniversity of GeorgiaThe University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...
- University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...