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Rights Of Their Land Shipped To Florida Apache
1,104 wordsSummary: Geronimo and the Apache Resistance The Myth about Geronimo portrays him as an implacable savage, but in reality he is a man that risked everything including his family, his land, his home, and his way of life to fight for his beliefs. He is said to have magical powers. He can see into the future, walk without leaving any footprints, and he can even hold off the dawn to protect his own. Geronimo is a Cheewakawa Apache, and for twenty-five years this warrior has defied federal authority w...
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Native Americans Medicine Man
526 wordsThe movie Geronimo: An american Legend is an excellent piece of cinematography. Jason Patrick and Robert Duvall, as usual provide the more with memorable characters. The movie is shown trough the eyes of Lt. Britton Davis (Matt Dillon) who is sent to assist Lt. Carles Gatewood in Geronimo's (Wes Studi) surrender. Geronimo is then placed in the San Carlos reservation. A dispute between a the military and the indians results in an indian massacre and Geronimo flee's fron the reservation. Geronimo ...
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San Carlos White Men
922 wordsFor generations, the Apaches resisted white colonization of their homeland in the Southwest (presently New Mexico and Arizona) by both Spaniards and North Americans. In 1848, when gold was discovered in California, the Apache were threatened by the incursions of white fortune-seekers. In an incident at a mining camp, Mangas Coloradas, chief of the Mimbreo Chiricahua, was whipped, an act that resulted in his life-long enmity against white men. Though his nephew Cochise had long resisted fighting ...
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Quot Quot Atomic Bomb
1,131 words" They fear They fear Ceremony FEAR = DESTRUCTION " They fear They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves. " " They will kill the things they fear all the animals the people will starve. " " They will fear what they find They will fear the people They kill what they fear" (Silko 136). &# 9; Leslie Marmon Silko uses these three short passages taken from an ancient Indian story included in the novel Ceremony to express and convey the id...
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Kas Ki Yeh Council Of Warriors Geronimo
1,456 wordsGeronimo Geronimo s grandfather, Maco, had been the chief of the Nedni Apaches. He had been of great size and strength. When Maco had been chief his principle wars had been against the Mexicans. They were seldom at great length of peace with the Mexicans. When Maco s son (Geronimo s Dad) became a warrior, Maco died. Geronimo s father could not become the chief of the Nedni s, because he married a woman from the Bedonkohe Apaches. The two had 8 children- four boys and four girls, including Geroni...
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Reservation To Reservation Steal And Flee Geronimo
1,048 wordsGo Kill Yeh, One Who Yawns, named Geronimo by the Mexican Army, was a dedicated Apache warrior. When one speaks of Indian war heroes, Geronimo is many times the first name uttered, especially when it comes down to pride, integrity, and the will for justice. He was born in No-doyen Canyon, Arizona, in the year of 1829, as the grandson of an Nedni Apache chief. This Position was forfeited as his father married out of the tribe. As a young teen, his father passed away, thus the young Geronimo took ...
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Los Angeles Police Los Angeles County
914 wordsgeronimo ji Jan (preferred capitalization), also known as Geronimo Pratt, a former Black Panther leader, was wrongfully convicted 24 years ago for the murder of a woman in Santa Monica, California. geronimo has always maintained that he was 400 miles away in Oakland, California, at the time of the killing at a Black Panther meeting, and that he was a victim of the Fbi's Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO). Represented by Stuart Hanlon, Johnnie Cochran, Robert Garcia, Julie Does, Valerie We...
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