When we are in school and learn about our history,and the Indians, we are too young to remember all we learned. It's important if we want to know the truth of that time,to take a look back at what happened, when we are old enough to understand it better.That's why I'm writing this poem,a short account of the series, you should watch it. I truly admire Native American Indians ,and wish things couod have been more fair!

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The Tribes and The Pilgrims

I watched  gifted ,young Indian actors as they
portrayed with truth, their ancestry
In the PBS series "We Shall Remain"
A splendid show of their heartache and pain

From the day the Mayflower arrived
The struggle of the tribes to survive
Out of misunderstanding and many lies
The relationship of Pilgrims-Indians  did arise

The Wampanoag tribe helped to guide
Pilgrims to a place they could reside
There was no fear, all seemed friendly
Indians were naive of other societies

Pilgrims told Indians of reason they did flee
From Kings bondage and control to be free
They hoped Indians would show them good land
They would buy and colonize was their plan

I became captivated in this well done series
Though I'd heard it all before over many years
Yet this was presented in such a well acted way
It conveyed the facts with a more honest say

Tecumseh (1768--!813)means :
"Celestial Panther" racing across the heavenly Sky
With younger brother "The Prophet" by his side
Together they led their Shawnee tribes to war
Over thirty years, their land they fought for

The Shawnee were allied with the British
 British lied to them,that they could defeat U.S.
Left to fight alone the Shawnee were defeated 
Tecumseh was killed, and shortly after the battle
Tecumseh  confederacy surrendered to Govenor Harrison,so the Great man of vision was no more
His 30 year battle had ended without any gain
He is remembered as a spiritual man sho loved
his land

Geronimo ( 1829 -- 1909)
(Chiricahua: Goyaalé, "one who yawns" in English
was a prominent Native American leader of the
Chiricahua Apache,in New Mexico,fought against
Mexico and the U>.S.  he was educated,also twice married

Being a Chiricahua Apache,meant he was powerful
Spiritually,and was a medicine man with great skill
He was notorious for urging raids into Mexico,they
called him a Chief for decades, but he never was

At one time they glorified him beyond what he was
But in later years they knew he was a liar, and loved
War, and would fight against the U.S. until he was
a prisoner of the United States at Fort Sill,
Oklahoma.

Geronimo died of pneumonia in  1909 while still
A prisoner,for years up until the present time there
have been rumors that the "Skull and Bones" secret society of Yale ,had Geronimos Skull

However...

In 2009, Ramsey Clark filed a lawsuit on behalf ofpeople claiming to be Geronimo's descendants, against,among others, President Barack Obama, Robert Gates, and Skull and Bones, asking for the return of Geronimo's bones.An article in the New York Times states that Clark"acknowledged he had no hard proof that the story was true ."

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I found all of this fascinating,and I hope you enjoyed at least some of it;-)

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Tribes that were in the series "We Shall Remain on PBS  If you would like to see the series they have it online to view  at PBS.ORG

Native americans tribes-south,central north amerixa
 Wampanoag. (massachusetts)
Cherokee-Oklahoma the Dakota's
Cheyenne   mostly Minnesota to Missippi
Creek,   the Carolina's Lakota language
Chikasaw-  southwest- Alabama and Missippi most formidable of all tribes
Chocktaw-  (of Muskhogean)-Oklahoma

Apache-new mexico west texas Arizona... most feared
Shawnee-pennsylvania Ohio Kansas Oklahoma
Creek,Chocktaw and Chicasaw formed a coalition
to keep the wars going,hoping to save thir land.

Of course this is only one small part of the Native American story, 

etw-2009