¡Colores!; Surviving Columbus: "First Encounters"

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.) · December 19, 1990

Late one afternoon in May 1539, the world of the Pueblo Indians changed forever when Estevanico (also known as Esteban de Dorantes or Mustafa Azemmouri)-- a Black slave from Morocco-- and his 300 retinue of Mexican Indians marched into the Zuni city of Hawikuh. Through wild tales and exaggerations, Hawikuh would be transformed into one of the fabled Seven Golden Cities of Cities of Cibola, and a year later, Coronado and his soldiers would wreak destruction and violence on this peaceful world in search of non-existent gold. Surviving Columbus is a search for the Pueblo peoples' view of these first encounters with European civilization and is told exclusively through the voices and visions of the Pueblo Indians. Directed by George Burdeau, this show is a co-production of KNME-TV and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Support for this program has been received from the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities and the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium. Guests: Dr. Alfonso Ortiz (Anthropologist), Joe S. Sando (Author, Indian Historian), Edmund Ladd (Curator of Ethnology, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture), Mecalita Wystalucy (Zuni House Chief). Host: Conroy Chino.