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Estebanico

The first Black explorer of the southwest
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Feb 03, 2024
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Esteban de Dorantes, an enslaved man of African descent known as Estebanico, was born in 1500. His given name from Morocco was Mustafa Azemmuri. As an advanced    scout of the ill-fated Coronado Expedition of 1536, he explored the Colorado Plateau and what is now Coronado National Monument, in Arizona.

One of only three survivors of a shipwreck off the c…

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The Unhidden Minute is part of the Unhidden Podcast Project supported through a National Geographic Explorer Grant from the National Geographic Society. This series celebrates the untold stories of Black American history.
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