This Is Not the Real Geronimo

This Is Not the Real Geronimo

Elbridge Ayer Burbank, “Geronimo” (1897), oil on canvas (image no copyright – United States, via the Newberry Library) Editor’s Note: The following text has been excerpted with permission and adapted from Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair by Joseph M. Pierce, published by Duke University Press on August 26 and available online and in bookstores. Geronimo faces the viewer wearing a luminous red blanket. The arresting swath of …