Yet as Charles H. Winfield has noted , as late as 1679 , there was a tradition among the First Nations that the Spanish arrived before the Dutch .
That from them tradition was that the natives obtained the maize or Spanish wheat .
Yet as Charles H. Winfield has noted , as late as 1679 , there was a tradition among the First Nations that the Spanish arrived before the Dutch , and that from them it was that the natives obtained the maize or Spanish wheat .