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Excerpt from Geronimo, Geronimo’s Story of His Life

In the summer of 1883 a rumor was current that the officers were again planning to imprison our leaders. This rumor served to revive the memory of all our past wrongs—the massacre in the tent at Apache Pass, the fate of Mangus-Colorado, and my own unjust imprisonment. Just at this time we were told that the officers wanted us to come up the river above Geronimo to a fort (Fort Thomas) to hold a council with them. We did not believe that any good could come of this conference, or that there was any need of it; so we held a council ourselves, and fearing treachery, decided to leave the reservation. We thought it more manly to die on the warpath than to be killed in prison.

Why did the Apache choose that response to the Army’s request for a meeting in 1883? Select all that apply.

The Apache trusted and respected the Army.

Apache leaders remembered the treachery at Apache Pass.

Geronimo wanted to attack the Army’s leaders.

Geronimo believed he had previously been unjustly imprisoned by the Army.

The Apache would rather die fighting than die in prison.