Kinsmen, you have heard what the Mexicans have recently done without cause. You are my relatives—uncles, cousins, brothers. We are men the same as the Mexicans are—we can do to them what they have done to us. Let us go forward and trail them. I will lead you to their city. We will attack them in their homes. I will fight in the front of the battle. I only ask you to follow me to avenge this wrong done by these Mexicans.
— Geronimo Modern

Apache leader

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Speech to Apache warriors before attacking Mexicans after his family's massacre.

Date / Period

c. 1858

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Controversial

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