“An Expedition Torn Asunder: O’odham Responses to the Coronado Expedition” Presentation
November 20 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
On Thursday, November 20, 2025, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center’s “Third Thursday Food for Thought” presentation will feature “An Expedition Torn Asunder: O’odham Responses to the Coronado Expedition” by archaeologist Deni J. Seymour, Ph.D. This free online Zoom presentation will be held from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ARIZONA/Mountain Standard Time.
Research on the Coronado expedition in southeastern Arizona has revealed that the O’odham were central to the way the expedition moved across the landscape. Usually focus is on how disruptive the expedition was to Native populations, but this presentation explores how effective forms of culturally specific O’odham resistance impacted the expedition. Impacts were clearly reciprocal, but the role of the O’odham has been underestimated. In her previous presentations and articles, Dr. Seymour laid out an initial framework for interpreting documented events using new data. Further revelations are now available on the resistance mounted within O’odham and expeditionary contexts. This presentation delves even deeper into the circumstances of the first series of contacts between the Sobaípuri O’odham and the Coronado expedition.
To register for the Zoom webinar go to https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_68TDeAIvQ8iZx0ypBFYDTw. For more information contact Old Pueblo at info@oldpueblo.org or 520-798-1201.
Caption: Coronado-era copper and iron crossbow-bolt points and aglets, copper bells from horse trappings, and caret-head nails from various Coronado expedition sites in Arizona (Image by Deni Seymour)