Geronimo Sparknotes

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“Geronimo: an American legend” is a story of an apache warrior who fought against the United States in order to preserve his peoples culture. The film starts off, ironically, with the first surrender of Geronimo. His people are sent to a reservation called turkey creek. On this reservation they were expected to become farmers that would produce mostly corn. However the apache where not harvesting enough to sustain their community and had to rely on government checks. Not all of the apache are satisphied with this new life and yearned for the old ways. When the residence perform a ritualistic dance to summon a great warrior the "dreamer" or medicine man is shot.in turn the apache troop shot said general and so begun the …show more content…

A few miles later our main characters find a small village that was attacked by Texan men who slaughter men women and children for their scalps even though they were not apache. Furious Latinate gatewood tracks these men down hoping they might also lead him to geranimo.however this only leads to ruin.as the dusts settles the protagonists find that Al Sieber was shot through the chest.” I never thought I’d die saving an apache" being one of his last words. This sentence captures the irony that the monsters we are afraid of are really just …show more content…

The characters needed some more history and development. Al Sebier was the most confusing of the bunch as to why he was even involved or why he was loyal to Gatewood. Sometimes I felt he did not like gatewood at all and other times I felt he would fallow him without question. It feels that he wasn’t even a real person and came to find out he was in fact a real person however he was not a part of the group taken to capture Geronimo and unlike the movie claims he did not die by gunshot instead he died On February 19, 1907,several years after Geronimo’s capture. Sieber was leading an Apache work crew that was building the Tonto road to the new Roosevelt Dam site on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. Sieber was killed when a boulder rolled on him during construction.

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