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...collection of American Indian objects. He discovered his life's mission as a 23-year-old engineering graduate of Columbia University, working as a railroad-construction superintendent in Kingman, Ariz. It was 1897, a moment--after American soldiers had killed Sitting Bull, massacred hundreds at Wounded Knee and captured Geronimo--when the white conflict with Native Americans was at last almost entirely decided in the settlers' favor. Indians were beginning their final transition in the white imagination from serious competitors to something like endangered species, figures who could be romanticized or despised, sometimes both at once. Years later, Heye described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Place To Bring The Tribe | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...President, Governor or actor but of her husband of more than 50 years. I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that despite any objections to Reagan's presidency, we can have sympathy for his family and friends who are coming to terms with his death. Geronimo Mulholland Fort Myers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...President, Governor or actor but of her husband of more than 50 years. I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that, despite any objections to Reagan's presidency, we can have sympathy for his family and friends as they cope with his death. GERONIMO MULHOLLAND Fort Myers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 12, 2004 | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...GERONIMO! From jungle trekking through Borneo to kayaking in Nepal, this ecoadventure travel site organizes thrills and spills for the hard-core adventurer. With experienced local guides and tour leaders, you can heed the call of the wild without the danger of getting lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Crawling | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...banks of the Little Big Horn. I remain stunned by these contradictions, by the successive generations of social, political and artistic mutations that can be so beautiful and painful. How did we get from there to here? This country somehow gave life to Maria Tallchief and Ted Bundy, to Geronimo and Joe McCarthy, to Nathan Bedford Forrest and Toni Morrison, to the Declaration of Independence and Executive Order No. 1066, to Cesar Chavez and Richard Nixon, to theme parks and national parks, to smallpox and the vaccine for smallpox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Sacagawea Means To Me (and Perhaps to You) | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

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