Geronimo — "I burned them all, even our tepee. I also burned my mother's tepee and destroyed…"
I burned them all, even our tepee. I also burned my mother's tepee and destroyed all her property.
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From his autobiography, his reaction to the massacre of his family, burning their possessions in grief and a vow of vengeance.
Date: 1905 (recounting 1858 event)
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