GERONIMO

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Available in bookstores May 20th, 2008

A new book has just come out on the legendary Apache Indian GERONIMO, published by Alban Michel.                                  

  Harlyn Géronimo, his great-grandson, was present in Paris to launch the edition based on his ancestor Geronimo (1829-1909)

One of the last Indians to lay down his weapons at the end of the wars, after holding out to over  half of the U.S. cavalry, he finally had to surrender with a handful of his bedraggled followers and despite the white army's promises, was never to see his native Arizona again before dying in captivity.

His sepulcre at the military cemetary at Fort-Still in Oklahoma, was profaned by the Skull and Bones Yale fraternity and never returned to his ancestral home. 

In 2008, Harlyn Geronimo, the co-author of this account, decided to hire a top lawyer to sue the US army to regain the remains of his illustrious forebear and bury them according to his original wish on his homelands.

The project was initiated after a Frenchwoman, Corinne Sombrun, met Harlyn Geronimo in 2005 in New Mexico.  They retraced the path to the source, at GILA, the place of Geronimo's birth.

Thanks to this fruitful and glorious collaboration, Harlyn Geronimo authorised Corine to record his testimony and publish the book in French. Harlyn also relates his continual life as a warrior but this time in Vietnam, and his political commitments, cultural resistence, tutoring the Indian culture to young people and talks about the Indians today, their state and challenges they face.

Being an apache is a lesson in life, goes the old Indian proverb " Be brave, like your ancestors in the face of their enemies, and defend yourself  - Bi da a naka enda. "

THE AUTHORS

Born in 1947, Harlyn Geronimo, the great-grandson of the famous Apache chief and warrior, Geronimo, is himself a medicine man, living on the Apache Reserve in New Mexico and upholds the traditions and rights of his people.

 Corine Sombrun, a trained pianist and composer, is the first Western woman initiated into the Mongol Shaman rite. A world traveller, she reports for magazines, the BBC, and collaborates in Canada with scientists in the study of shamanism and its effects on the human brain.

She lives between Paris, London and Mongolia, where she spends several months a year. 

Albin Michel Press Attachée is Anne-Emmanuelle Robicquet  01 42 79 10 59