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(+Full Screen)"When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and stars, the clouds and storms. She also taught me to kneel and pray to Usen for strength, health, wisdom, and protection. We never prayed against any person, but if we had aught against any individual we ourselves took vengeance. We were taught that Usen does not care for the petty quarrels of men."
-- Geronimo, Chiracahua Apache (1829-1909)
Geronimo (Chiricahua: Goyaałé, "one who yawns") was a prominent Native American leader and medicine man of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States and their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. [link]
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Found this in W.R. Burnett’s postface to his novel Adobe Walls
« Geronimo, the best-known Apache Leader, was actually a newspaper figure, built out of all recognition by careless or unscrupulous newspapermen. He was not a chief at all, but a medicine man, who could talk a leg off a horse. He almost talked the American authorities into submission. He could talk for days. He would have been great at filibustering in the Senate. The real Apache leaders were Mangus Coloradas, Cochise, Nachez, and Victorio.
The Regular Cavalry was almost helpless against the Apaches. If it hadn’t been for the scouts, red and white, none of the marauding bands would ever have been brought to book. It was not so much a question of fighting them, as finding them. They hit and ran. They never fought a pitched battle. Their two tactical manœuvers were ambush and flight. They lived in the desert like lizards. They could travel on foot about as fast, even faster, than a trooper on horseback.
They were probably the greatest warriors ever seen on this earth. »
Not bad as a novel, although he seems blissfully unaware the Apaches were defending their country and their way of life.
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That is very interesting. I would agree, "blissfully unaware".
For clarification, it is true Geronimo was never Chief of the Apache Nation. Like Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota Nation, Geronimo was a war leader (i.e. War Chief). It is also true the newspapers fed a lot of disinformation about Geronimo. However, this disinformation was mostly due to the Calvary and US Government seeking to keep the "white's" in fear.
As a side note, the appearance of Geronimo's smirking grin in this picture, actually comes from a scar on Geronimo's face where a bullet grazed his cheek.
Have you seen any of the documentaries from the "American Experience" series "We Shall Remain"?
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No, I never did see them ( I don't think they ever were shown in France ).
As to Burnett, well, what he knew about was big city stuff - Little Caesar and all that; what possessed him to write about Apaches and the Southwest I can't begin to guess.
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