Geronimo or “the one who yawns” was a very famous Apache chief. He is famous for fighting against the westward expansion of the United States Army. He was born in what is now New Mexico into a family with four sisters and three brothers. He was married at the age of seventeen and he had three children. On March 6, 1858 while Geronimo and the rest of the men were in the town trading a group of four hundred Mexican soldiers attacked his town and among the dead where his wife, his mother and his children. He was given the name Geronimo by the Mexicans during a battle where he charged the Mexican soldiers with only a knife, ignoring the bullets being fired at him.
Geronimo always thought of himself as more of a military leader than a chief. If there is one similar character in the movie Dances With Wolves I think it would be Wind in his Hair. Wind in his Hair is quick to jump to violence and intimidation which is similar to the philosophy of Geronimo who was always militarily inclined. In the movie Wind in his Hair says “We will shoot some arrows into the white man. If he truly has medicine, he will not be hurt. If he has no medicine, he will be dead.” This is a great example of Wind in his Hair jumping to violence and war before diplomacy.
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