Geronimo E-KIA, a poem by the 1491s

Accompanying music by A Tribe Called Red

On May 1st around 3:30pm President Obama received a message from a Navy SEAL saying "Geronimo- E KIA" the code meaning Osama bin Laden is dead. We humbly disagree.

Geronimo was a product of his environment. A human. One with flaws. One with enough history that the person charged with defining who he is can shape the narrative any which way he likes. People chase him today, just as they did then. His story, or peoples versions of it, lead us to this point where we are today. But this poem isn't about Geronimo is it?


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[noeleon78]

HE lives in a man that refuses to give up even when no one will give him a job.

[Hokaheyhockey]

He is alive in the hockey player who remembers the children at home

He is alive in the linguist who teaches our songs, our dreams, our language

He is alive in the mother who remembers to tell her children to treasure where they come from

He is alive in every man and woman who if they get lost, remember to get up and get back on the Red Road

He is alive in everyone who when they dream, they dream of peace, beauty, and honor

Ehto niyotonhakne onkwa nikon ra Now our minds are one!

Niawen'kowa!

[Lucky Zapata]

He's alive in me!!.....

[Brittany Nfield]

Im an Apache from Whiteriver, AZ The White Mountain Apache Tribe orginally he's from here.

[Rye Noe]

he lives in his grandson

[Stacks MaGee]

He is the awesome sniper that kept killing in MW3; damn him! LMAO!

[ThreeMoons25]

Im An Apache my clan is WhiteRock or Ni Llath kii. Geronimo is More Than a but less than a god. We have songs about him and in each and every single one of those songs he flys in a white horse he rides over us the homeland he fought for san carlos arizona I would post a song but I got no way of doing so but the stories of him goes great when told by an apache.

[Andrea Matthews]

Blessings to all for taking your stand for walking that fearful walk of what now. I did that walk I am a proud Native living in a city.My child knows her Native Land that her great grandfather faught for. I am thankful for my freeedom, I am thankful for my homeland.

[Nightx88]

What's the name of the song?

[HTTZK]

He lives in the staff of the Amos Key Jr. E-Learning Institute who help First Nation students to get a white man's education while allowing them go and hold higher their own culture and ways

[btrzl21]

Perhaps if they were looking for a name that they can associate with a terrorist they should have used the code "Christopher E-KIA". It would have been more accurate.

[Joseph Geronimo]

tks to 1491s.