Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Geronimo: The Ultimate Symbol of Apache Ruthlessness and Resistance" video.
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In the book, born to run, the author talks about how Geronimo would lead his guerilla fighters against the US soldiers and let them chase him back into the canyons in Mexico, where he would vanish, and so would his pursuers, because the army would get lost, caught in flash floods, attacked by animals, snakes or die of starvation or thirst. He was great at letting nature dispose of people who were after him...the Barrancas are where a number of famous people have vanished, never to be heard from again, like Ambrose Bierce....
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@DuvalDiva32210
"Geronimo used to skedaddle into the copper canyons when on the run from the US Calvery, so did his protege, the Apache Kid. "By the time you saw the Apache Kid, it was entirely too late." Pursuing them into the maze of canyons meant the risk of never coming out again. John Burke, a US Calvery Captain barely survived an unsuccessful pursuit of Geronimo into the canyons. After days of baking in the sun, soldiers would welcome the relief of a few dark clouds. Within minutes, they would be trapped in a surge of water as powerful as a fire hose, scrambling desperately to escape the slippery rock walls. That's exactly how another Apache rebel named Massai wiped out an entire calvery squad. By bringing them into a shallow gorge just in time to be swept away by a mountain cloudburst. The Apache chief Vitorio used to lead calvery troops on a cat and mouse chase deep in the canyons, then lie in wait by the only waterhole. Lost, and crazed by heat, they would rather risk a quick bullet to the head than a slow choking from a thirst thickened tongue "...Christopher Mcdougall, Born To Run.
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@florenmage
I know! Reading that struck me for days! My mom was half native American Indian and French Creole, and my dad was French Irish, so I've always been fascinated by the history of America and Mexico. The early French trappers and mountain men would routinely live and marry into the tribes for the first hundred years or so of outside exploration of the country. It became discouraged when the "aquisition" of land to enrich Europeans meant trying to exterminate any people who wouldn't move off their tribal lands.
Obviously, there were still people (like my grandma!), who found Indians had a lot going for them, and got around the prejudice by passing off my mother as her husbands child, not her indian lover, which, in my opinion, was pretty pointless, since my mother from a baby looked so much like a movie cast Indian that without knowing her background, my sister and I nicknamed her "squaw"..(I know it's horrible, but our only info on Indians in the 1960s was tv western depictions...)
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