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Jun 3, 2023Liked by Will Granger

Thank you for this, Will. I had thought that the Calusas always turned away the Spanish. Now I know better. One story I heard, perhaps from the latter days of the Spanish presence: Three young Calusa boys (teenagers, I’m sure), stripped a priest naked, put him in a canoe, and pushed it into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. In a final gesture, the three of them mooned the poor guy — “showed him their bare buttocks,” read the report. Love that story.

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