American Experience We Shall Remain: Part IV - Geronimo (Season 21, Episode 8)
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TV Episode | 78 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Experience

We Shall Remain: Part IV - Geronimo (Season 21, Episode 8)

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TV Episode | 78 min | Documentary, Biography, History

In February of 1909, the indomitable Chiricahua Apache warrior and war shaman Geronimo lay on his deathbed. He summoned his nephew to his side, whispering, "I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man ...See moreIn February of 1909, the indomitable Chiricahua Apache warrior and war shaman Geronimo lay on his deathbed. He summoned his nephew to his side, whispering, "I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive." It was an admission of regret from a man whose insistent pursuit of military resistance in the face of overwhelming odds confounded not only his Mexican and American enemies, but many of his fellow Apaches as well. Born around 1820, Geronimo grew into a leading warrior and healer. But after his tribe was relocated to an Arizona reservation in 1872, he became a focus of the fury of terrified white settlers, and of the growing tensions that divided Apaches struggling to survive under almost unendurable pressures. To angry whites, Geronimo became the archfiend, perpetrator of unspeakable savage cruelties. To his supporters, he remained the embodiment of proud resistance, the upholder of the old Chiricahua ways. To other Apaches, especially those who had come to see the white man's path as the only viable road, Geronimo was a stubborn troublemaker, unbalanced by his unquenchable thirst for vengeance, whose actions needlessly brought the enemy's wrath down on his own people. At a time when surrender to the reservation and acceptance of the white man's civilization seemed to be the Indians' only realistic options, Geronimo and his tiny band of Chiricahuas fought on. The final holdouts, they became the last Native American fighting force to capitulate formally to the government of the United States. Written by We Shall Remain See less

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Name	Known for
Keith Basso Self - Anthropologist Self - Anthropologist See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Benjamin Bratt Self / Narrator Self / Narrator See fewer	Miss Congeniality (2000)
Collin G. Calloway Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Silas Cochise Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Michael Darrow Self - Fort Sill Apache Tribal Historian Self - Fort Sill Apache Tribal Historian See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Philip J. Deloria Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Attla (2019)
R. David Edmunds Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Freedom Riders (2009)
Oliver Enjady Self - Chiracauha Interviewee Self - Chiracauha Interviewee See fewer	Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Robert Geronimo Self - Great Grandson Self - Great Grandson See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Tim Harjo Self - Chiracauha Interviewee Self - Chiracauha Interviewee See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Elbys Hugar Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Homeland Nation: Mescalero Apache (2010)
Anita Lester Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Song of Songs (II)
L.G. Moses Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Freedom Riders (2009)
Ramon Riley Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	Freedom Riders (2009)
David Roberts Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Vernon Simmons Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Zelda Yazza Self - Interviewee Self - Interviewee See fewer	American Experience (1987)

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