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American Experience; We Shall Remain: Geronimo

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Series

American Experience

Program

We Shall Remain: Geronimo

Program Number

2108

Series Description

Premiered October 1988 As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. Now in its eighteenth season, the series has produced over 180 programs and garnered every major broadcast award. Series release date: 10/1988

Program Description

NOTE: Rebroadcast and repackaged for season 24 (2012), with new NOLA Code and without the We Shall Remain packaging. See Geronimo title for additional assets.

As the leader of the last Native American fighting force to capitulate to the U.S. government, Geronimo was seen by some as the perpetrator of unspeakable savage cruelties, while to others he was the embodiment of proud resistance.

Episode four of five in the We Shall Remain series.

Born around 1820, Geronimo grew into a leading warrior and healer. But after his tribe was relocated to an Arizona reservation in 1872, he became a focus of the fury of terrified white settlers, and of the growing tensions that divided Apaches.

To angry whites, Geronimo became the archfiend, perpetrator of unspeakable savage cruelties. To his supporters, he remained the embodiment of proud resistance, the upholder of the old Chiricahua ways. To other Apaches, especially those who had come to see the white man’s path as the only viable road, Geronimo was a stubborn troublemaker, whose actions needlessly brought the enemy’s wrath down on his own people.

The final holdouts, they became the last Native American fighting force to capitulate formally to the government of the United States.

Duration

01:17:48

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres

Documentary

Topics

History

Citation

Chicago: “American Experience; We Shall Remain: Geronimo,” GBH Archives, accessed July 27, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F9C62F6EAF7F4D2B951B563C8AAAC22D.

MLA: “American Experience; We Shall Remain: Geronimo.” GBH Archives. Web. July 27, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F9C62F6EAF7F4D2B951B563C8AAAC22D>.

APA: American Experience; We Shall Remain: Geronimo. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F9C62F6EAF7F4D2B951B563C8AAAC22D