English 1: Geronimo, Part 6
Reading assignment: Chapters 14-16
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Reading assignment: General Oliver Howard. Download here. [download id=”52099″]
Chapter 12 dealt with events in 1883 and 1884. Chapter 13 dealt with relations with whites: none in between 1858 and a decade later (p. 114). Chapter 14 reverts back to 1863: the murder of Mangas-Coloradas. Chapter 14 ends in what appears to be 1865. Chapter 15 seems to begin where chapter 14 ended, but this not clear. It moves in just two pages to 1872: his surrender to Gen. Howard (p. 128). Then there is a story about outlaw Apaches who murdered the owner. Geronimo then left the reservation in 1876. Chapter 16 begins with his surrender and trial, presumably in 1877. Then, with no explanation, the narrative jumps to 1883 (p. 133). Geronomo does not explained what happened in between. He had left the reservation again in 1881.
Note: June 1876 was Custer’s last stand, known as the battle of the Little Big Horn. The American population in late 1876 was concerned with the continuing conflicts with the Plains Indians. They wanted the tribes defeated. The Apaches were the last holdouts.