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Geronimo

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Gerónimo was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people.

Quick Facts About Geronimo

Notable works: Single Cash Manuscript Book - 6 X9 120 Pages, Green

About Geronimo

Gerónimo was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache bands – the Tchihende, the Tsokanende and the Nednhi – to carry out numerous raids, as well as fight against Mexican and U.S. military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Geronimo

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living…

Babe

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“I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go…

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It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to…

American indian

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The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed…

Air

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When a child my mother taught me the legends of our people; taught me of the sun and sky, the moon and…

Care

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The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

Government

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We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble…

Church

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I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

Alive

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I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred…

Chiefs

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We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He…

Creating

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I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who…

Do not fear

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Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

Creator

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I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go…

Babe

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Since my life as a prisoner has begun I have heard the teachings of the white man's religion, and in many respects…

Believe

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While living I want to live well.

Life

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I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.…

Born

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Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops…

Afternoon

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I am not ashamed to be a Christian, and I am glad to know that the President of the United States is…

Almighty

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I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us…

Children

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I was born where there were no enclosures.

Apaches

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