YouTube Premiere! 🍿
Coronado: The New Evidence
On Friday, January 30th, at 2pm MST, we’re excited to announce Coronado: The New Evidence will premiere on YouTube for all audiences! You can tune in here.
The film explores one of the longest-standing archaeological mysteries in the United States–the land route taken by famed explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado who from 1539-1542 was attempting to find vast wealth and fame while traveling north from Mexico.
Through the intrepid and tireless work of Arizona-based archaeologist Dr. Deni Seymour, we learn where Coronado's expedition first crossed into what would later become the continental United States.
Frances Causey Films had exclusive access to the Coronado archaeological site where Dr. Seymour unearthed hundreds of Coronado artifacts including a breathtaking 16th-century "wall gun" - the oldest firearm found in the continental United States.
This discovery has dire, far-reaching implications not only for the U.S. and World history—but for the indigenous people, the Sobaipuri, and their descendants, the Wa:k O'odham, who first encountered Coronado.
The Wa:k O'odham soberly and thoughtfully share their reaction and meaning of this breakthrough discovery by Seymour. Coronado was not exempt from the well-known litany of crimes committed by White Europeans against American Indigenous peoples.
Dr. Seymour also discovered evidence of a Sobaipuri revolt that pre-dates the New Mexico Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The 1541 Sobaipuri rebellion is therefore the first successful Native American revolt in what is now the U.S. This single battle kept White explorers out of Arizona for another 150+ years.
This Coronado site is the first established Spanish colony in the American Southwest and the third ever established in what is now the United States. This villa/town pre-dates San Agustín, Roanoke, and Jamestown!
The film appears Courtesy of Coronado Films, LLC and Frances Causey Films.
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