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Geronimo

noun

Apache chieftain who raided the white settlers in the Southwest as resistance to being confined to a reservation (1829-1909).

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"Geronimo" Quotes from Famous Books

... 454.) The Acagchemem Indians of California said that a powerful being called Chinigchinich created man out of clay which he found on the banks of a lake; male and female created he them, and the Indians of the present day are their descendants. (Friar Geronimo Boscana, "Chinigchinich", appended to (A. Robinson's) "Life in California" (New York, 1846), page 247.) A priest of the Natchez Indians in Louisiana told Du Pratz "that God had kneaded some clay, such ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

... secondary instruction conducted by the Dominican Fathers, by whom it was taken over in 1640. "It had its first beginning in the house of a pious Spaniard, called Juan Geronimo Guerrero, who had dedicated himself, with Christian piety, to gathering orphan boys in his house, where he raised, clothed, and sustained them, and taught them to read and to write, and much more, to live in the fear of God."—Blair and Robertson, The ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

... in height and weighing over two hundred pounds, he was a soldier by nature and a natural leader among leaders. He had fought all through the great Civil War with much credit to himself, and it was he who, during the great Apache Indian uprising, followed the crafty Geronimo through mountain and over desert for a distance of nearly fourteen hundred miles, and at last caused him to surrender. For this, it is said, the Indians called him "Man-who-gets-up-in-the-night-to-fight," and they respected him as they respected ...

— The Campaign of the Jungle - or, Under Lawton through Luzon • Edward Stratemeyer

Words linked to "Geronimo" : apache, Indian chief, Indian chieftain