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In Geronimo's Footsteps: A Journey Beyond Legend Hardcover – November 11, 2014

by Corine Sombrun (Author), Harlyn Geronimo (Author), E. C. Belli (Translator),
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The name "Geronimo" came to Corine Sombrun insistently in a trance during her apprenticeship to a Mongolian shaman. That message and the need to understand its meaning brought her to the home of the legendary Apache leader's great-grandson, Harlyn Geronimo, himself a medicine man on the Mescalero Apache reservation in New Mexico. Together, the two of them—the French seeker and the Native American healer—would make a pilgrimage that retraced Geronimo's life while following the course of the Gila River to the place of his birth, at its source.

Told in the alternating voices of its authors, In Geronimo's Footsteps is the record of that journey. At its core is an account of Geronimo's life, from his earliest days in a Chiricahua Apache family and his path as a warrior and chief to his surrender and the years spent in exile until his death, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Recounted by his great-grandson, his story is steeped in family history and Apache lore to create a portrait of a leader intent on defending his people and their land and traditions—a mission that Harlyn continues, even as he campaigns to recover his ancestor's bones from the U.S. government. Completing Corine's circle, the book also explores the links, genetic and possibly cultural, between the Apache and the people of Mongolia.
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“This is a good medicine book and holds sublime truths. It is an interface of ancient shamanic knowledge with present-day realities. At its heart is the story of the holy and noble warrior Geronimo. Corine Sombrun and Harlyn Geronimo have shared a bittersweet journey with us—it is a powerful affirmation of the mystery.” —David Carson, award-winning author of Crossing into Medicine Country and coauthor of the bestselling Medicine Cards

"Harlyn Geronimo’s passionate commitment to return the remains of Geronimo, his legendary great-grandfather, from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he died a prisoner, to his birthplace and native home at the headwaters of the Gila River in New Mexico is a profound revelation of the endurance of the Native American spirit." —Ramsey Clark, former attorney general of the United States

"A stimulating book, full of history and Native American legends, of accounts of war and plants for healing."—Le Point

"Captivating . . . Weaves together both ancestral Apache culture and a glimpse of the daily lives of people on the Mescalero reservation in New Mexico. The chapters devoted to Geronimo read like an initiation story, while those on contemporary Apache life are classic reportage."—Nouvel Observateur

"Geronimo's great grandson recounts the famous Apache chief's life in a riveting book that also touches on topics from his own service in Vietnam to his activism for his people and the medicine man he has become—this in addition to little known facts about Geronimo."—Le Monde

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Corine Sombrun is a musician, writer, and shaman. Born in Africa, she was trained as a pianist and composer in France and worked in London for a BBC World program on religion. While she was in Mongolia for the BBC, a shaman recognized her gift, and she underwent a three-year apprenticeship. Her abilities in the trance state have been studied by researchers in France and Canada. She now resides in Paris, France. Harlyn Geronimo is a medicine man and activist deeply involved in the life of his people on the Mescalero Apache reservation. He is also a sculptor. A former member of the tribal council, he speaks publicly about Apache history. From his many speaking engagements in Europe, he has been called an "Indian ambassador." He lives with his wife, Karen, an Apache linguist and teacher, in Mescalero, New Mexico.

 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arcade; 1st edition (November 11, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 161145896X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1611458961
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
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    E.C. Belli is a bilingual poet and translator. Her second book, A Sleep That Is Not Our Sleep, is winner of the 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, selected by Cathy Park Hong (Anhinga Press, 2022). Her debut collection of poems, Objects of Hunger, is winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Series First Book Award (Southern Illinois University Press, 2019). She is the translator for I, Little Asylum, a short novel by Emmanuelle Guattari (Semiotext(e), 2014) and The Nothing Bird: Selected Poems by Pierre Peuchmaurd (Oberlin College Press, 2013). She is the recipient of a 2010 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and her work in French has appeared in Europe: revue littéraire mensuelle and PO&SIE (France), among others.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!
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I am very grateful to the writers for sharing this history of Geronimo, their meeting, and the eventual meeting between both Apaches and Mongols. I pray that Geronimo's remains are returned very soon to his people for proper burial. It would be the right thing to do...
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Roger A. Shervington
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read!
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2020
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A great read with fascinating insights into Apache culture and lore. Geronimo sounds like so much more than the “bloody savage” he’s portrayed as.
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Charles Stevens
5.0 out of 5 stars IT ARRIVED !
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2020
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I LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT IT , CLEAN & INTACT !!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for history buffs.
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2019
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Very informative & well written. Great pics also.
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Scott Shannon
5.0 out of 5 stars A Shamanic Journey
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2016
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I found this to be a wonderful and instructive shamanic journey. Plus, the information given about Geronimo and the plight of our native Americans was touching and tear-inducing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!
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A fascinating story.
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Carl
4.0 out of 5 stars Three stars? Fours stars? I'm on the fence on this one. Why? Because......
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2016
This book is a good read and Harlan Geronimo comes off as a really good guy who I'd probably get along great with. The author on the other hand.... She wrote a good book but she's a French woman who believes she is a Mongolian Shaman and that she goes into trances and "becomes a wolf", at which point she begins to howl. Sorry, but not my kinda gal. I just couldn't give a girl who howls at the moon five stars. I wanted to give her three but I threw an extra one in for Harlan's sake.

I enjoyed the pictures at the end of the book too. Oddly, compared to many of the people pictured with Geronimo, Geronimo himself seemed tall. Now, I'm a PhD archaeologist and at one point in my life I had Geronimo's war costume on my desk for six months. He was a little bit of a guy. MAYBE 5 feet.

One thing that struck me as I read the author's reaction to Harlan and the reaction of Europeans to Harlan during his trips there is that the reaction of many to meeting "an Indian" is juvenile. Many seem star struck. Folks, they're people, just like you and me. Culturally the old times especially are different but Greeks and Scandinavians are different and Chinese people and Sicilians are different. So what? At times there might be failures in communication. I certainly experienced such failures while hanging out with Sioux friends who would describe visits made to them by spirits of the dead, etc. I'd listen in disbelief. They knew I wasn't getting it. They'd have a hard time understanding why I didn't get it, and then we'd get back to drinking beer :-)

Anyway, if you have an interest in the Apache and especially if you have an interest in Geronimo, read the book and try to make believe the author is't a French woman who howls at the moon when she fancies herself a wolf.
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Susan J Nee
5.0 out of 5 stars A Moving and Spiritual Journey with Apache Chief Geronimo's Descendant
Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2015
This is a very spiritual book. The author, following a vision she had of Apache chief Geronimo while in Mongolia, traveled to the America to meet Harlyn Geronimo, great grandson of Geronimo. The author chronicles her time spent with Harlyn Geronimo, an Apache shaman and tribal leader who works to keep Apache culture, customs, and spiritual beliefs alive. The author and Harlyn Geronimo share notes on their beliefs of the common link between the Apache people and the Mongolians. It is thought that many of the native peoples living in America came from Asia on a land bridge exposed during the last ice age.

The great Apache chief Geronimo fought for his people's freedom and their way of life. He ultimately was defeated like all the other native Americans, by the white man's superior numbers and technology. We would do well to learn some of the ways of the natives, who lived in concert with nature and the spiritual world.
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