It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct.
On Arizona.
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Original Citation
Geronimo. Speech from Fort Sill. 1877, Fort Sill, OK, USA.
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Current Citation
Geronimo. Quoted in Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place, written by Angie Debo. University of Oklahoma Press, 1976.
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