New Mexico Blizzard 1931 (newsreel) – American Indian Film Gathering

Film Details

Title: New Mexico Blizzard 1931 (newsreel)
Year: 1931; repurposed for television, 1948
Duration: 0:1:44
Director: unknown
Writer: unknown
Producer: Yesterday's Newreels
Narrator: Tom Hale
Sponsor: unknown
Establishing Shot: Credits and title cut to a snowy scene with four men walking through the snow with blankets under their arms (00:00:12).
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 Native people standing in queue for food rations.
Individuals Named: No named individuals
Native Languages Spoken: No native languages
Other: Google map identifying Dowa Yalanne