You recognize who died the opposite day? Geronimo. ” “Is that correct? ” “Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Died of pneumonia. ” “That’s too bad,” Raymond stated. “I suggest i believe he may really have gotten killed battling. ” “You ever visible him? No, you'll were too younger. ” “Sure, I visible him. hear, I’ll let you know whatever I by no means informed anyone. My father was once in his band. Geronimo’s. ” “Is truth? ” “He used to be killed in Mexico while the warriors went down there. ” “My goodness,” Mr. Manly stated, “we’re speaking approximately warriors, you’re the son of an Apache warrior. ” “I by no means instructed anyone that. ” “Why now not? I’d imagine you’d be proud to inform it. ” “It doesn’t do me any stable. ” “But if it’s true—” “You imagine I’m mendacity? ” “I suggest in view that it’s a truth, why now not inform it? ” “It don’t make any distinction to me. i may be Apache, i may be Mexican, I’m in Yuma the remainder of my existence. ” “But you’re residing that life,” Mr. Manly stated. “If a person’s an Indian then he should still examine himself as an Indian. Like I advised Harold, God made him a nigger for a cause. okay, God made you an Indian. There’s not anything fallacious with being an Indian. Why, have you learnt that approximately part our states have Indian names? Mississippi. The nation I come from, Tennessee. Arizona. The Colorado River out yonder. Yuma. ” “I don’t know,” Harold acknowledged, “that spear feels like it may well holiday effortless. ” Mr. Manly regarded over at him and on the booklet. “They understand how to make ’em. ” “They struggle folks? ” “Sure they did. Beat ’em, too. What I comprehend, your Zulus owned many of the southern a part of Africa, took it from different tribes and governed over them. ” “Never obtained beat, uh? ” “Not that I ever heard of. No, sir, they’re the best warriors in Africa. ” “Nobody ever beat the Apache,” Raymond stated, “till the U. S. military include all their goddamn weapons. ” “Raymond, don’t ever take the Lord’s identify in useless like that. ” “Apaches beat the Pimas, the Papagos, Maricopas—took something we needed from them. ” “Well, I don’t carry with raiding and killing,” Mr. Manly acknowledged, “but I’ll let you know there's something noble approximately your uneducated savage that you simply don’t see in loads of white males. I suggest simply the best way your warrior stands, up directly together with his shoulders again and not says an excessive amount of, doesn’t speak simply to pay attention himself, like loads of white humans i do know. I’ll inform you whatever else, boys. Savage warriors have by no means been recognized to lie or return on their be aware, and that’s a truth. guy up on the reservation informed me that Indians don’t actually have a notice of their language for lie. comparable factor together with your Zulus. I reckon if a boy can run all day lengthy and kill lions with a spear, he don’t ever need to lie. ” “I by no means heard of Apaches with spears,” Raymond acknowledged. “Oh, certain, they'd them. And bows and arrows. ” Harold was once ready. “I count on the Zulus received weapons now, don’t they? ” “I don’t learn about that,” Mr. Manly spoke back. “Maybe they don’t desire weapons. determine spears are more than enough. ” a grin touched his mouth as he regarded around the table at Raymond and Harold. “The factor that tickles me,” he stated, “I’m prone to have a number of genuine honest-to-goodness Apache and Zulu warriors sitting here in my workplace and that i didn’t even are aware of it.