Teen's Discovery Reveals Lost City.

PositionNATIVE AMERICANS - Brief article

North America's second-largest Native American settlement has long been shrouded in mystery. Where exactly was Etzanoa? And is it true, as centuries-old Spanish records claim, that 20,000 Wichita Indians lived in the 5-square-mile village and battled Spanish conquistadors in 1601? We now have some answers, thanks in part to Adam Ziegler, a teenager who crossed paths with archaeologist Donald Blakeslee a couple of years ago. Blakeslee, of Wichita State University, had just secured better translations of the Spanish records. They led him to modern-day Arkansas City, Kansas--and specifically, Adam's grandmother's backyard. Adam, then 15, helped Blakeslee's team search the area with metal...

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