As I was walking,

that Ribbino Highway,

I saw above me,

Endless Skyway I saw below me in the Golden Valley.

This land was made for you and me. If you only know the name Geronimo from the call that paratroopers in old war movies and bugs bunny cartoons shout. It's a nickname bestowed upon a Native American

hero by Mexican soldiers. During repeated conflicts, the Apache warrior attacked them with nothing but a knife, surviving each time despite being continually shot at.

The soldiers would plead to St. Jerome as they faced him.

Geronimo, Spanish for Jerome.

On today's episode of America's National Parks, Geronimo, and his imprisonment at Fort Pickens,

now a part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore in Pensacola, Florida.

Here's Abigail Trebue. One of the leading causes of the Civil War was westward expansion and

whether new states like Kansas would be slave states or not, tipping the scale of

power toward the north or South.

After the Civil War ended in the question of slavery was decided,

the US government turned its military prowess

towards the native people of the West.

Tribes gave up most of their traditional lands and ways of life

as they were forced onto reservations.

Eventually, the reservations were encroached upon

as miners and settlers moved in and

demanded more land. The Chirakawa Apache reservations shrank to nearly one-third

of its original size. Bands of Apacheaches hostile to one another were forced to live together on

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