The comics reading adventure continues 😊 Today’s comic is ‘Geronimo‘. Story by Matz and art by Jef. I’ve wanted to read this for a long time. I’m glad I finally got to read it.
Geronimo was a native American. He was an Apache. Initially he was a shaman or a spiritual leader of his tribe, but because of the circumstances, he ends up becoming a warrior. Initially the Mexicans attack his tribe and kill most of the women and children and his tribe goes to war against the Mexicans. Geronimo performs great feats of bravery in that war and that is when he is given his new name Geronimo. Soon the white colonizers from the north do bad things to the tribe and the Apaches get caught between these two enemies. What happens to Geronimo and his Apache tribe forms the rest of the story. It is the age old story of foreign colonizers coming and occupying the land and driving the natives out, and then painting the natives as uncivilized barbarians in their history, while the natives are driven to remote corners of their own land and have to struggle to make ends meet. It is a tragic story which has been going on since the dawn of time, which continues till this day.
I didn’t know much about Geronimo before and I learnt a lot of history through this book. The popular perception of Apaches is that they are a violent, ruthless people, but this book showed Apaches in a totally different light. It made me want to read a longer book about Geronimo and the history of that time. I have a 1993 movie based on Geronimo’s story and I hope to watch that sometime.
Have you read this book? Do you know about Geronimo?
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