All the World Is Human

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Tracing the trials of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, who was shipwrecked off the gulf coast of Texas in 1528 and lived among Indians for eight years, this program reveals how some early Spanish explorers grew to empathize with the plight of Native Americans. Through the writings of Cabeza de Vaca and excerpts of the famous argument of Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas—the first appointed Protector of the Indians by the Spanish crown—in which he debated that “Indians are humans,” the program explores the emergence of a new era of acceptance. Cabeza de Vaca became a shaman later in his life. Few stories in history match these for sheer drama, endurance, and transformation as this. Part of the series Conquistadors. Distributed by PBS Distribution. (60 minutes)