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Geronimo’s Seven-Month Imprisonment and Tourist Spectacle at Fort Pickens
Fort Pickens hides a dark chapter in Native American history. After Geronimo’s 1886 surrender, the U.S. Army broke its promise to return him to Arizona.
Instead, they shipped him and 16 warriors to this Florida fort, while sending their families 300 miles away. For seven months, these men cleared weeds and stacked cannonballs as tourists paid to gawk at them…