Estevanico was a translator and guide, and was probably the first person of any race from outside the Americas to enter what&rsquo;s now Arizona and New Mexico &ndash; which happened in 1539. Research: <ul> <li>Birzer, Dedra McDonald and J.M.H. Clark. &ldquo;Esteban Dorantes.&rdquo; Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade. Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation. https://enslaved.org/fullStory/16-23-92882/</li> <li>Birzer, Dedra McDonald. "Esteban." Oxford African American Studies Center. May 31, 2013. Oxford University Press. Date of access 30 Jul. 2025, https://oxfordaasc.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-34375</li> <li>Chipman, Donald E. and Robert S. Wedd. &ldquo;How Historical Myths Are Born...... And Why They Seldom Die.&rdquo; The Southwestern Historical Quarterly , January, 2013. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24388345</li> <li>Clark, J.M.H. "Esteban the African &lsquo;Estebanico&rsquo;." Oxford African American Studies Center. May 31, 2017. Oxford University Press. Date of access 30 Jul. 2025, https://oxfordaasc.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-73900</li> <li>Docter, Mary. &ldquo;Enriched by Otherness: The Transformational Journey of Cabeza de Vaca.&rdquo; Christianity and Literature , Autumn 2008, Vol. 58, No. 1. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44313875</li> <li>"Estevanico (1500-1539)." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A148426031/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=41f83344. Accessed 28 July 2025.</li> <li>Flint, Richard. &ldquo;Dorantes, Esteban de.&rdquo; New Mexico Office of the State Historian. Via archive.org. https://web.archive.org/web/20110728080635/http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=464</li> <li>Gordon, Richard A. &ldquo;Following Estevanico: The Influential Presence of an African Slave in Sixteenth-century New World Historiography.&rdquo; Colonial Latin American Review Vol. 15, No. 2, December 2006.</li> <li>Gordon-Reed, Annette. &ldquo;Estebanico&rsquo; s America.&rdquo; The Atlantic. June 2021.</li> <li>Herrick, Dennis. &ldquo;Esteban.&rdquo; University of New Mexico Press. 2018. Project MUSE. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/60233.</li> <li>Ilahiane, Hsain. &ldquo;Estevan de Dorantes, Estevanico: The First Moroccan and African Explorer of the American Southwest.&rdquo; Southwest Center. Via YouTube. 2/21/2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLm0BsFDfvk</li> <li>Ilahiane, Hsain. &ldquo;Estevan De Dorantes, the Moor or the Slave? The other Moroccan explorer of New Spain.&rdquo; The Journal of North African Studies, 5:3, 1-14, DOI: 10.1080/13629380008718401</li> <li>Ladd, Edmund J. &ldquo;Zuni on the Day the Men in Metal Arrived.&rdquo; From The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva. Shirley Cushing Flint and Richard Flint, eds. University Press of Colorado. 2004. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/3827</li> <li>Logan, Rayford. &ldquo;Estevanico, Negro Discoverer of the Southwest: A Critical Reexamination.&rdquo; Phylon (1940-1956), Vol. 1, No. 4 (4th Qtr., 1940). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/272298</li> <li>Sando, Joe S. &ldquo;Pueblo nations: eight centuries of Pueblo Indian history.&rdquo; Santa Fe, N.M. : Clear Light. 1992.</li> <li>Shields, E. Thomson. "Esteban." Oxford African American Studies Center. December 01, 2006. Oxford University Press. Date of access 30 Jul. 2025, https://oxfordaasc-com.proxy.bostonathenaeum.org/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-17021</li> <li>Simour, Lhoussain. &ldquo;(De)slaving history: Mostafa al-Azemmouri, the sixteenth-century Moroccan captive in the tale of conquest.&rdquo; European Review of History&mdash;Revue europe&acute;enne d&rsquo;histoire, 2013 Vol. 20, No. 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2012.745830</li> <li>Smith, Cassander L. &ldquo;Beyond the Mediation: Esteban, Cabeza de Vaca's &lsquo;Relaci&oacute;n&rsquo; , and a Narrative Negotiation.&rdquo; Early American Literature , 2012, Vol. 47, No. 2. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41705661</li> </ul>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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