but rather he and his friends remained among the A:shiwi who probably helped him fake his death so he could regain his freedom. Some folklore legends say that the Kachina figure, Chakwaina, is based on Azemmouri. Legacy Estevanico was the first non-Native to visit Pueblo lands. Representation in other media The Moor's Account, a 2014 novel by American writer Laila Lalami, is a fictional memoir of Estevanico. Estevanico, a poem by Jeffrey Yang, was published in Poetry, July/August 2017. It is "narrated" by the Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and recounts his years of exploration in the New World with Estevanico as a physical and moral guide. In 1940, Estevanico was honored with one of the 33 dioramas at the American Negro Exposition in Chicago. Time Machine, a 2020 hybrid documentary by Moroccan filmmaker Tarek Bouraque, is set in a past/present/future time where Azemmouri, born in 1502, undertakes a journey to the 21st century. See also List of slaves York (explorer) References Bibliography Arrington, Carolyn. Black Explorer in Spanish Texas: Estevanico, Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1986 Katz, William Loren. The Black West, Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971 Logan, Rayford. "Estevanico, Negro Discoverer of the Southwest: A Critical Reexamination", Phylon 1 (1940): 305–314. Maura, Juan Francisco. Burlador de América: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Parnaseo/Lemir. Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, 2008. Maura, Juan Francisco. “Nuevas interpretaciones sobre las aventuras de Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Esteban de Dorantes, y Fray Marcos de Niza,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (PR). 29.1–2 (2002): 129–154. Shepherd, Elizabeth. The Discoveries of Esteban the Black, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1970. pp. 111–4. External links "Estevanico", Handbook of Texas "Estevanico", Enchantedlearning.com 1500s births 1539 deaths Explorers of New Mexico People from Azemmour Explorers of North America Converts to Roman Catholicism from Islam Moroccan former Muslims Spanish slaves Portuguese slaves Spanish explorers African conquistadors Spanish conquistadors Moroccan Roman Catholics People murdered in New Mexico 16th-century slaves Moroccan expatriates in the United States