Feel Puma by Ray Gonzalez

Author:Ray Gonzalez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2020-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

VIII

1886, Skeleton Canyon, Arizona

After decades of fighting Mexican

and American soldiers, Geronimo

surrenders to the US Cavalry,

thousands of Apache dead and

dancing in the rocks, cutting

themselves with thorns from

barrel cactus, weaving formations

in the Arizona desert to count a

century of genocide, the saguaros

streaming great white owls out

of their thick and tall arms,

the forest of thorns pouring owls

until the moment Geronimo’s

hands are tied by a US soldier,

the few survivors led away,

the Apache a prisoner for twenty-three years

of confinement, his last deathbed

words in 1909 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma—

“I never should have surrendered.

I should have fought as the last man.”

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