“Indians Trapped in New Mexico Blizzard” (newsreel)

Film Details

Title: "Indians Trapped in New Mexico Blizzard" (newsreel)
Year: 1931
Duration: 0:1:44
Director: unknown
Writer: unknown
Producer: unknown
Narrator: Tom Hale
Sponsor: unknown
Audible: Good quality English narration
Establishing Shot: Men walking from screen right to screen left in the snow, with snowy mountains in the background.
Major Themes: This newsreel reports on the “…vain and valiant…” rescue of bands of Zuni and Navajo Indians from a large blizzard in western New Mexico. This film opens with scenes of dead and frozen people being carried out of the mountains by rescue workers. The surviving Zuni and Navajo Indians are relocated to a McKinley County trading post. The film closes with scenes of American Indians standing in queue for food rations.
Individuals Named: No named individuals
Native Languages Spoken: No native languages
Other: Google map identifying Dowa Yalanne

Tribes: Zuni