Geronimo was not killed in Pakistan.
Geronimo was a college student in Lawrence
who refuses to be a statistic.
Geronimo was not killed in Pakistan.
He's alive in a woman from Oakland
who tutors and mentors indian kids growin' up in the city.
He is alive in a single mother from Tahlequah
who talks to her kids in indian because she won't give up
one
more
inch
He lives in the young family from Los Angeles
who moved back home
so their kids would grow up in their ways.
He lives in the tribal council woman from Anadarko
who puts all her self interest aside
and votes for her people.
He was not a billionnaire
who cowardly commanded planes into towers.
He was not a code name
or a mission call sign.
Geronimo did not die in Abbottabad.
He is alive in Sisseton
living in the Elder who refuses to die.
That fluent speaker that shows up every day
Saving the language one story at a time.
He lives the lawyer from Black River Falls
who beats them at their own game.
He is alive in the domestic violence victim from White Cloud
who decided to fight back.
He is not a suicide victim,
but a friend from Cannon Ball who will talk you out of it if you just call.
He is a u.s. army sniper scout from Pawhuska
that climbed the mountains of Afghanistan
looking for Al-Qaeda
He is a civil servant from Gila River
who learned the entire system
just so she could get it off the backs of her people.
He is the grant writer from Shiprock
who stays up all night trying to get her people access to drinkable water.
He's a paramedic from Wide Ruins
who drives the ambulance faster because he knows no other help is coming.
He is the farmer from Holdenville
who knows he's planting more than just seeds in the ground.
He is alive in the woman from Sky City
who prays before every meal because that's how she was raised.
He's the filmmaker from Mesa
who says this story isn't just about Geronimo.
He is the parent from San Felipe
that volunteers to take the kids to all the soccer games
because she likes to see them win.
He lives in the professor from Honolulu
who fights day after day for the sovereignty of her people.
He is a tribal maintenance man from Wewoka
who would give the shirt off his back if you asked him.
He is alive in the fisherman from Neah Bay
who refused to get out of his boat.
Geronimo was not killed in a Pakistani mansion.
He is the social worker from Pawnee
who does more with less.
He is alive in the old man from Clinton
who tells the kids where the songs came from.
He lives in the nurse from Bristow
who would lay down her life if it meant her people would stop hurting.
Geronimo is the history teacher from Akwesasne
who knows the truth does not come in versions.
He lives in the Hōkūle‘a
traveling the Pacific by stars.
He is the youth worker from Fort Yates
taking her nieces and nephews to ceremony every chance she gets.
He lives in the community organizer from Fort McMurray
who is fighting the tar sands
the largest destructive development
on the planet.
He is alive in a chief from Arctic Village
who went to the United Nations to fight for his people's territory.
He is a language immersion teacher from Browning
telling his students why they must wear moccasins
instead of Nike's in their school.
Geronimo lives in Post Falls
Mount Pleasant.
Red Lake.
Chinle.
White Swan.
Gray Horse.
Miyeda
[ ? ]
Horton
Red Rock
Campo
Clear Lake
Hoopa
Wombley
Bishop
Wind River
Marty
Laguna
Waimānalo
Burns
San Carlos
Mescalero
Rocky Boy
Yurington
Stroud
Shinnecock
Juneau
Geronimo was not killed in Pakistan.
He is a government worker from Fort Berthold
that shut down the oil rig from dumping sludge in the creek.
He is a track star from Gallup
who runs like his heart is on fire.
He's the Grandmother from Windigo
teaching her granddaughter to bead.
He's the Grandfather from Porcupine
teaching his grandson how to take care of horses.
The father from the the [ ? ]
teaching his son how to harvest wild rice.
A mother from Tama
teaching her daughter to sing.
He is every Apache living in Lawton
right now.
Geronimo isn't dead.
He's alive.
He is alive in me.
me
and me.
And his real name
wasn't Geronimo.
His people call him