. Yesterday’s post on Geronimo put me in mind of John Ford‘s Cheyenne Autumn. The excerpt from We Shall Remain noted how within only several years of Geronimo’s capture he had transformed in the American consciousness from demon savage into the iconic fierce warrior. (The U.S. special forces operation that killed Osama bin Laden was code-named “Geronimo.”) John Ford spent much […]
How We Lived On It (45) – Geronimo
. Just over three years ago, Julia and I were present for the aftermath of a blessing ceremony – the participants and witnesses of which had been Apaches only – on the San Carlos Apache reservation. “The purpose of the ceremony,” I wrote at the time, “was to prepare the land for the installation of […]
The Geronimo Project
On December 30, 2008 a blessing ceremony was held on the site of “Old” San Carlos, location of the San Carlos Apache Reservation’s original settlement, at the confluence of the Gila and San Carlos Rivers. The purpose of the ceremony was to spiritually prepare the land for the erection of a memorial comemmorating the one […]