Geronimo: An American Legend Page #4

prison stockade.

He want to know why these rules.

Why they be punished?

What you care if Apache drink?

Soldier drink.

Nantan Lupan says

if Apache drink, Apache fight.

Apache get into trouble.

It's bad for everyone.

It's bad for the Apache,

it's bad for soldiers...

...bad for all the White-Eyes.

Say, why, if some Apache do bad things,

all are punished?

That will not happen.

All Apache should not be punished

for the mistakes of only a few.

We will determine who is responsible

and only those few will be punished.

Six weeks after I took up residence

at Turkey Creek, Lieutenant Gatewood...

...and AI Sieber came to visit.

Sieber, as Chief of Scouts, was in charge

of recruiting Apache for the Army.

Hello there, Mangas.

Just the fellow I want to see.

I want you to join the Army, all right?

Wolves with blue coats,

scouts to help us fight the renegades.

You'll be a sergeant, wear a blue coat,

stripes on your coat, with Army pay.

I don't know, Sieber.

Well, you are a warrior. You hunt men.

You'll make your woman,

make your children proud of you.

Mexicans, they took my wife, my little boy.

Maybe the Army could help get them back.

I think maybe I stay here.

If I was asking you out on a raiding party,

I expect you'd be a lot more willing.

Federal government had forced

over 500 Chiricahua...

...to take up residence

within Turkey Creek's narrow borders.

Corn was the main crop, but the land

was not fertile enough to be self-sufficient.

The Chiricahua became dependent on

government supplies for their well-being.

Gatewood. You come to visit me.

Makes my heart glad to see Geronimo.

How's the life of a farmer?

Some Apaches are good farmer.

Others miss the old way.

I'm not good farmer, Gatewood.

I have come here to visit my friend...

...but I have some questions

I need to ask you.

There are rumours that a medicine man

is speaking against the White-Eye.

That he is calling for a return

to the war trail.

It was told by a medicine man...

...many more Apache would die

fighting White-Eye.

And in the end...

...we will win because we will die

free of them.

Is the only way for an Apache to be free...

...to die?

Well, which medicine man is this?

I should talk to him.

Find out what he's saying.

There are many.

Some have the power.

Some just talk.

He's a warrior.

Every bit born in battle.

Fighting a lost cause.

I'm familiar with the type.

My two older brothers and my father

fought for the Army of Northern Virginia.

My oldest brother was killed.

My father was wounded, crippled.

After the war, he took me aside and said,

'You'll carry the new flag.'

Sent me off to the Academy.

First of my family

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