On February 17, 1909, while Chiricahua Apache, Geronimo, laid on his deathbed, he whispered to his nephew who was by his side, “I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.” A prominent leader from the Bedonkohe group of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, Geronimo and his fierce group of warriors refused to accept the expansion of the United States and Mexico into their homeland, which later became one of the last major Native American conflicts before their surrender in 1886. After their surrender, Geronimo was soon to be known as the most famous Native American of his time.
