Geronimo citáty

Geronimo , vlastným menom Goyaałé , bol náčelníkom Apačov, posledný vodca indiánskeho odporu proti vláde USA.

Narodil sa v júni roku 1829 pri prameni rieky Gila v Mexiku. Bol z indiánskeho kmeňa Chiricahua, ktorý patril do skupiny Mescalero.

Na rozdiel od iných kmeňov, ktoré sa dali presídliť, Apači z Arizony sa dlhé roky zdráhali opustiť svoje územia. Rezervácia San Carlos, ktorú im ponúkli bola púšťou, kde Indiánom chýbali predpoklady na prežitie. Presídlením by navyše stratili svoje posvätné miesta. Verili, že ich spájajú s predkami.

Geronimovým zajatím sa skončila posledná indiánska vojna.

17. februára 1909 zomrel Geronimo na zápal pľúc. Je pochovaný na cintoríne vo Fort Sill. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. jún 1829 – 17. február 1909
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Geronimo: Citáty v angličtine

“I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen.”

On being informed that there were authorizations to kill him while he was a prisoner in San Antonio, prior to news of further instructions to transport him to Florida, as quoted in Geronimo and the End of the Apache Wars (1990), by Charles Leland Sonnichsen, p. 102; "Usen" is the Apache word for God, and "Nantan" their word for a leader, spokesman, or "chief".
Kontext: I will protect my people if I live. For myself I do not fear for I have the word of Usen. Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?

“Once I moved about like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all.”

Statement to General George Crook (25 March 1886), as quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) by Dee Brown

“In the beginning the world was covered with darkness.”

Geronimo's Story of His Life (1907)
Kontext: In the beginning the world was covered with darkness. There was no sun, no day. The perpetual night had no moon or stars.
There were, however, all manner of beasts and birds. Among the beasts were many hideous, nameless monsters, as well as dragons, lions, tigers, wolves, foxes, beavers, rabbits, squirrels, rats, mice, and all manner of creeping things such as lizards and serpents. Mankind could not prosper under such conditions, for the beasts and serpents destroyed all human offspring.
All creatures had the power of speech and were gifted with reason.