Geronimo (Goyaałé: The One Who Yawns)
Public Domain
"GERONIMO had surrendered! For the first time in three hundred years the white invaders of Apacheland slept in peace. All of the renegades were prisoners of war in Florida. Right, at last, had prevailed. Once more a Christian nation had exterminated a primitive people who had dared defend their homeland against a greedy and ruthless invader."
Apache Devil
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
published in 1933
It still blows my mind that Edgar Rice Burroughs was writing from this perspective in 1927 (War Chief) and 1933 (Apache Devil). I mean, this was 43 / 37 years before Dee Brown published Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, and certainly not a time wherein most people saw "Indians" as human beings. So 🎩🎩📴 to Mr. Burroughs, for sure.
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