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foreign
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Indians to be returned home Herman Layman the son of German immigrants was
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kidnapped by the Apache and cruelly abused until he became one of them
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the record of Herman Layman is really important to understand American Indians
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the world was astonished at his adventures he had risen to the possession of a
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minor chief he asserts himself in a world that is characterized by violence
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because it has some tragedy and some great Fascination to it
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the freedom of the Plains Indians was at stake because of the advancement of the white settlers Herman Layman becomes a
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witness of their downfall and fights until the end for the Indian way of life
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[Music] he became Indian and even some ways more
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than the Indians were [Music]
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[Music]
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as I said here thinking about Grandpa this was the
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actual place he was returned and I just wish he could be here and I
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could sit beside him and listen to some of his stories that he would tell me
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in 1878 at first just a rumor an Indian who was seen at the Indian reservation
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is in reality a white person the German Herman Lehmann his mother Augusta never
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gave up her hope to see him again but nobody really knows if it is truly him
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[Music]
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when he was kidnapped he was still a young boy who spoke mainly German just like anybody else
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for the young Warrior everything at this place seems to be foreign and threatening to him
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[Music] [Applause] is this the son who was robbed from
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Augusta Layman eight years ago
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back then Augusta her husband and the kids ran a little farm
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[Music] it was not an easy life almost no rain the soil was hard
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[Music] here life means hard work so that the
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family will be able to make it through the winter [Music] foreign
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came with many other immigrants on the ship from Bremen to Texas starvation and
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persecution pressured people to leave their old Homeland they were full of Hope for a new beginning in a country
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with equal chances for everyone
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at the beginning of the 19th century they moved areas on the East Coast especially the German triangle between
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Milwaukee St Louis and Cincinnati 50 years later the East and the South are
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completely settled the Germans discovered Texas is a new destination [Music]
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but during their trip many of them fall victim to disease
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[Music] conditions are worse than promise only the tough survive in the middle of Texas
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they established the town of Fredericksburg here today many of the residents are descendants of German
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immigrants just like the writer Scott Zack his great great uncle was also
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kidnapped by the Indians
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the Germans had purchased rights to settle in the Fisher Miller land grant so there was going to be a direct
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conflict between the German immigrants and the Comanches who hunted there in 1847 the German immigrants were able to
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make a private agreement to share the territory with the Comanches that was
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very unusual in American history for a group of private settlers to reach an agreement with a Native American tribe
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and for several years it worked very well [Music]
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but around 1870 the peace began to crumble Comanche and Apache invade again
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and again the land of the German settlers the Indians are not just about capturing their horses the settlers live
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in constant fear of Indian attacks and kidnappings
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[Music]
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in May of 1870 this becomes the Layman family's fate
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for the families of the kidnapped child the situation was very difficult first
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of all the families lived many miles apart so they could not go to anyone quickly for help and so many of these
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families spent several years wondering if their child was being tortured was
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being starved was being mistreated
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Herman is only 10 years old and he is scared the Indians put the boy through tests to see his character Hermann
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proves himself to be tough
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carve into my flesh
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I was able to survive that horrible night I don't know
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Herman's tormentors or Mescalero Apache they belong to the tribes that were in control of the Plains for more than 200
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years the Great Plains endless grassy Plains and often desert Landscapes that
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are hostile to life down south in Texas there is a place with great importance for the Plains Indians the Palo Duro
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Canyon
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even at the time as Columbus discovered America there were already settlements at this Canyon
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Donald fixico has intensely researched the history of his ancestors the North
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American Indians the Apaches lived in the Palo Duro
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Canyon there were part of the Plains Indie Community originally there were farmers and they learned to adjust to
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the Earth or to the land and then becoming successful Farmers then all of that was interrupted with the
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introduction of the horse
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it may be hard for you to imagine Indians without horses but it was not until the Spanish came in the 16th
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century that they brought horses into this country the Mustangs are descendants of these Spanish horses
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Apache and Comanche developed into excellent Riders and became the rulers of the planet battles with the whites
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and between other tribes are their daily routine life centered around hunting grounds horses and fame
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the amount of death in Indian Wars really depleted the Warriors among the Comanches about 40 percent of their
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population was not Comanche it was Indians from other tribes it was
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Mexicans it was white Americans people from Texas that were Incorporated and brought in and they were somewhat
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indianized Hermann and his captors had already been traveling for four days for Hermann
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hunger and thirst blend with despair Escape is completely out of the question
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foreign
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saw his life as a great adventure
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[Music] at 60 years of age he dictated those
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adventures and described valuable details about the lives of Indians for example how they communicate
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Chief had a mirror made out of metal whereby he reflected The Sun Also the
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spies had a mirror in this way they could communicate with each other and indicate
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how is it to live a life as a white Indian anthonologist Marin trink studies
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the history of those border crossers between the cultures [Music] [Applause]
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always caused a great disturbance and in the case of Herman Layman we have
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that story one of Adventure and at the same time an account that tells us about
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two different worlds with different cultures of course The Sensational and the spectacular play a key role in it as
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well [Music]
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even today readers all around the world devour Herman's adventurous stories about life with real Indians it inspires
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movies novels and even a comic book it was the first Buffalo I have ever
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seen they cut a piece of liver out of the still worm animal sprinkled it with gall and commanded me to eat it I
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swallowed it but it came up again I swallowed it again but it came up again and again and again the Indians put more
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Gall on the Romney and forced me to eat it
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several days before I was still a part of a loving family and suddenly no help
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of rescue and the feeling that each moment could be the last one
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forced me [Music]
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after 10 days they finally arrived at their Village Herman should be punished for the fate of the fallen and wounded
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of their war party but it isn't all about revenge the Indians also want to find out if the child could be useful to
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them depending on how he reacts to their treatment he might get the chance to be accepted into their trial
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the children seem to know intuitively that they should not cry or show Fear
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because they might be mistreated or even killed and so they they learn to adjust
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very quickly Herman was put to the test and one of the things they put before
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him was raw meat and cooked meat he suspects that perhaps his future fate
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depends on this decision
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thank you if I had taken the roasted meat the food
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of the whites they probably would have tortured me again after having been tormented and tortured
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he suddenly gains acceptance and approval for Herman the door is now open for his first steps into the unknown
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world of the Plains Indians this rare film also gives us a unique insight about Indian life the tribes of the
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Plains Indians are rarely greater than 200 people and have clear gender roles
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foreign [Music]
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[Music]
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Plains had a very strict division of responsibilities women's activities and men's activities
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were completely separated men were not supposed to do any household work they
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were only responsible for the areas of hunting and War
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they live as Nomads always looking for the best opportunities to hunt and to Rob they are able to build up and take
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down their TPS in less than an hour
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very few of the Native Americans lived in stone buildings
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the Anasazi Indians lived in little multi-story dwellings but most of them used wooden buildings or tents
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these great cultures have left behind almost no marks in ten thousand years they orally pass on their history and
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their myths almost all of them don't know how to write
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[Music]
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the scenery in North America is extremely diverse just as all the cultures of Indians have developed
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differently there are 567 different tribes it's a
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very Complex Community of native people and they're so diverse it's like a
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history of the world because there are Comanches and Mohawks and senecas and
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all over the entire Americas [Music]
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the Blackfoot are hunters and nomads
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the Seminole live in huts and engage in agriculture [Music]
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the Kiowa are settled Traders
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in spite of this variety most of us have a very one-sided view of Indians just as
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the one of the Apache winitu who is always Noble helpful and good or on the
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other hand of the wild and evil Indian both of these views are only stereotypes
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is historically accurate concerning the Apache tribes they developed their own
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way of life that was not so much centered on War as it wasn't plundering they became professional Marauders we
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can see the effect very clearly in Hermann lehmann's book it was not about killing as many people as possible like
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in military actions but it is about plunder plundering animals people and
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possessions Herman was socialized in exactly that pattern
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Herman was trained to become a warrior there is no connection to his old home anymore supposedly his whole family was
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killed during another attack this was a lie of the chief carnaviste that would permanently bind Herman to the tribe
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via carnivals
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Young
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a new name a new family new challenges Herman more and more encounters the
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world of the Indians compared to his new life his former life was uneventful and full of hardships
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[Music]
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this is the type of house the Layman family had these log cabins were very
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typical in the Texas Hill Country up until the early 1870s it was very hard
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for families to survive in these conditions the houses were very hot in the summer they had to cook Outdoors
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they were cold in the winter and very little space [Music]
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by 1920 5 million Germans had emigrated from Germany to the United States
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[Music] ah but dreams fall and break into a
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thousand pieces in Bleak Landscapes as it was in Texas often there was less land than promised the soil was very
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hard to work additionally there were problems that no one had thought of in Germany such as the continual danger of
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Indian attacks in the years before 1870 in the Borderland of Texas almost every
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German settler knew about relatives who had been kidnapped
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[Music]
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kidnapping of children in the rural areas of Texas were fairly common we don't know for
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sure how many were kidnapped but almost every year or two in a rural community
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at least one child would be taken Jimmy mckinn was kidnapped at 10 years
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of age by the Apache and he learned their language he defended himself vigorously when he was rescued Olivia
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Oatman is 13 years of age when she was kidnapped she lived among Indians for six years she had to live with her
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tribal tattoo the rest of her life some of the kidnapped children white and Mexican were returned to their parents
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after negotiations [Music]
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my ancestor out of court was captured five months before Herman Lehman he was
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traded to Comanches for horses and blankets in Herman's case he stayed with
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the Apaches but in this period in time the Apaches and Comanches would sometimes camp together and so my
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ancestor Adolf corn and Hermann Layman occasionally met each other and could
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Converse in German [Music] at home uncertainty remains over a
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period of years Herman's mother Augusta doesn't know if Herman is still alive Herman's memories of the past are dried
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up his family doesn't exist for him anymore in the past four years he became
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a real Indian in how he feels how he thinks and how he behaves
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for a period of weeks the Warriors leave their camp and go on raids throughout large areas of Texas whoever opposes
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them runs into danger of being killed whether they are a settler Soldier or Indian
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whereas the children of settlers learn how to become Carpenters or blacksmiths Herman's curriculum ranges from stealing
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to murder thank you
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never before I have helped anybody neither it was my desire to do so but
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Carnival threatened me with all kinds of punishment I would refuse to do it
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when white Americans come into Apache land the idea of killing it became what
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people did in fighting for their own lives and so in the process of that a
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lot of intimidation and a lot of Mutilation of bodies and and scalping
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and amputating parts and things like that to show the other side you don't
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come here because this is our land this is our Apache land if it's the Comanches then this is Apache land and you don't
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come onto that land because this is what will happen to you [Music]
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the motive is not lust of murder it is about betrayed in certain parts of the
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world scalping can be traced all the way back to the distant past in many tribes it became prevalent after the clashes
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with the whites became more and more brutal just as it was in the case of the Plains Indians
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Hermann had achieved the status as a young but equal warrior with promising
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young talents and if his personal history among the Apache would have taken a different course he would have
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almost certainly become achieved among the Indians this was the way that was predetermined for him and he could have
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carried it [Music]
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but since the middle of the 19th century settlers Advance further and further into the plains in order to protect
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against Indian raids forts were built that served as military bases [Music]
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the battle between whites and Indians became more and more intense on both
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sides at horrible raids whole Villages were extinguished the Plains Indians
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suffered huge losses because of War but also through diseases they were exposed to because of the whites such as
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smallpox in cholera in 1867 once again hope for peace is bringing up more than
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five thousand Plains Indians gather at Medicine Lodge to negotiate with the Lakes at that time it was a real media
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event the government made them an offer provision of food on their own reservation if they stopped their raids
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and they agreed to the building of the railroad feel
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[Music] the feeling circling planes in there many of the sudden planes Indians knew
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that they couldn't keep living their old way of life most of them at this point had already accepted that life on a
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reservation was inevitable and that was the solution the Americans offered them
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seven years later carnavista and his people including Hermann refused to go onto the reservations along with many
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other planes they wanted to live just as their ancestors and Warriors and freeing
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homans okay
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but how could they hunt in a world with increasingly more barbed wire fences cattle Barons the military and settlers
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all of them wanted to force out the plane's Indians and there was a very special Troop that
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was most effective the Texas Rangers actually fought against the Indians harder than the U.S
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Army in some cases and so both the Indians and their captives who had
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become adopted very much hated the Texas Rangers and considered them their
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strongest enemies their methods were mutilation torture
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and scalping in the style of a guerrilla truth they defeated the Indians with their own weapons
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[Music]
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in 1874 when Herman Layman came in contact with the band of Texas Rangers
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he was a part of a raiding party that came down near Fredericksburg and they
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had hurt gotten word that the Texas Rangers were coming so they headed out to the hill
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[Music] the Indians run into an Ambler
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most of them were able to flee in front of his day's brother was fatally shot [Music]
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Herman was seriously injured
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[Music]
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I shut my eyes I could already feel the bullet in my head but I suddenly
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realized that the Rangers didn't do anything to me because they recognized that I'm white
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the Apache however had regarded him as one of their own for a long time for
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five days they waited for his return in vain then they began with the morning ceremony
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the record of Herman Lehman is really important to understand American Indians being a
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very inclusive people as harsh as they first treated him they made him to become one of them and in
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the end he wanted to be one of them injured without food and almost without
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water Herman dragged himself back driven by the longing for his tribe
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to me as a historian but also as an American Indian who is a historian
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he shows that American Indians are real people he shows that they have need for a
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community and for a family away
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I told carnivasti of his brother's death that I had buried him with my last ounce
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of strength of protection from the wild animals
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because of his courage carnivise day appointed Hermann as leader of his own little Troop five years before Hermann
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was just a little fearful German boy now he is a war hero and probably soon a
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husband later on in his life he could become a chief thank you
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[Music] but the world of the whites is Unstoppable and spreading the railroad
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is now reaching as far as the Great Plains
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[Applause] it was not only bringing new settlers
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and cattle breeders in this area but Buffalo Hunters also
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within only two years they killed five million animals on the Southern Plains
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foreign
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[Music] eradication of Buffalo Begins the
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American government tolerated the American Military decides it because in
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that way they can destroy the livelihood of the Indian tribes as the Buffalo is the livelihood and the spiritual center
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of the society
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the vision of a medicine man gives once again hope to the Warriors if they would
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just kill enough whites he prophesies the Buffalo will return again
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more than 700 previously enemy Warriors of the tribes of the Comanche Kiowa
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Cheyenne and Arapahoe joined forces united through one feared Chief the
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Comanche Quanah Parker [Music]
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the target of their attack in June 1874 was Adobe walls a little post of the
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Buffalo hunters in Texas in the Panhandle Plains Museum no one
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knows the history better than the historian Michael grauer
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the Buffalo Slaughter really begins after the Civil War and certainly flowing by the early 1870s most of the
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rifles used by Buffalo Hunters were in fact military surplus converted for hunting rifles until the sharps company
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comes out with their 50 caliber sometimes referred to as Old Reliable or the big 50 and it becomes a very uh much
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treasured rifle amongst Buffalo Hunters because of its killing power from a great distance and its efficiency
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it's a deadly super weapon not only for hunting Buffalo but also for the battle with Indians in the Battle of adobe
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walls a superpower of several hundred Warriors attacks the Huts of the Buffalo Hunters only if the whites are able to
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keep them at a distance do they have a chance
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28 Buffalo hunts here they were supremely armed especially with Sharps big 50 and Billy Dixon allegedly on the
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second or third day of the battle shot an Indian office horse from about 7 8 of a mile which is a record Shot
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[Music] shocked by the range of the weapons the Indians pulled back after three days
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more than 700 warriors were unable to defeat 28 Buffalo Hunters
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the news of the defeat at Adobe walls pierced us to the heart because now it
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was very clear to us that the Buffalo Hunters would come in such great numbers
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so that no hunting grounds would be left for the natives
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would be left for natives [Music]
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Herman and his tribe pull further and further back into the mountains desperately looking for land where the
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whites would not come
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they found a valley where they could survive there was water and Wild game for hunting
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but then Hermann makes a discovery that ruins all plans gold
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in the world of the whites it would be the solution to all their problems
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but for carnivise day the nuggets are worthless stones and a threat for the freedom of his people
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knows about the disastrous magic that gold has for the whites and he had heard what happened during the Gold Fever in
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California [Applause]
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foreign in the middle of the 19th century in one
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dash hundreds of thousands traveled to the West Coast the natives were enslaved to become
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workers for the gold diggers or they were killed in only five years their numbers decreased from 150 000 to 30
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000. We buried all our hope that we would eventually discover a land but the
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lights
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so with increasing frequency the government systematically deploys soldiers against
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the Plains Indians they would force them finally into the reservations in the
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middle of the 1870s the last great battles start in the Great Plains famous
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leaders of the Plains Indians one more time State everything on one card the
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Comanche quanta Parker the Sioux City Bowl
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Kiowa Lone Wolf they lead their Warriors into the last
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great battles of plain at the Washington River and Red River and then at the Battle of the Little D
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corn there the Plains Indians achieved the greatest victory of their history but every single time the Army joins
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forces and repulses Quanah Parker is cornered with his
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people he pulls back into the Apollo Duro Canyon in November 1874. here they
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know every single Gorge and are able to avoid open combat
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back in this direction on the other side of that Ridge is where the Indian Camp was they felt they were safe because
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they were used to U.S army tactics of retreating in the winter however Colonel McKenzie brings his Troopers down the
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south rim of the canyon basic basically undetected and and surrounds the village that's here several hundred lodges
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stretching miles down the river and burned The Lodges burned the winter food supply captured the horses and put them
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on foot the soldiers push the horses into the
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Thule Canyon which was both 30 miles Southwest of it
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there they kill the horses way more than one thousand of them the massacre at the foot of the canyon lasts more than half
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a day with the loss of their horses the horse people of the Comanche lose their soul
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a legend sprang up that the the ghost of those horses who were killed ghosts of horses and mules would roam the Plains
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and run across the plains out here especially during a full moon in the in the later part of the year called the
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Comanche Moon even to this day the Fallen men and
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horses are commemorated in the spring of 1875 quanta Parker and
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his men surrendered the only solution for them is to permanently go onto the reservation Hermann would have also gone
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with his Apache tribe but then everything was completely turned upside down during a dispute carnivise day was shot
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dead by another Indian Herman didn't hesitate for a moment to Revenge his foster father then Herman had to flee
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himself so that he wouldn't be killed for months Herman lived in the wilderness
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foreign was separated from the Indians and
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fearful of the whites all alone without friends without acquaintances or even
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enemies who I could talk to he is one of the last free Plains
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Indians only a few Comanches still live outside of the reservation
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after a year I was tired of my own life although I didn't know if the Patcher of
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the Comanche right now I had to try my luck
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in any circumstance it was in uh he made the best of it I think the years that he
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lived by himself was probably the hardest years for him he was so lonely it was just him and the horse and so he
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took his life in his hand when he went back into the Comanche Powwow
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suddenly his eventful history resumes [Music]
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he was accepted into the tribe now once again he is able to live the life of a warrior as a Comanche he is in the front
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line in the last battle between the Plains Indians and the lights the Army in return destroys the camp of the
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Comanches driven by raging anger the Indian's goal was to kill at least five
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whites for each of their victims when all of a sudden their former greatest leader Quanah Parker appears
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[Music] the warrior and Lehman continues and
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then Quantum Parker the Great War leader himself says you know we shouldn't fight
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anymore because if we're going to survive as a people as Comanche people then we need to accept this new kind of
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lifestyle and he had to convince Lehman to do that the pressure from the flow of settlers became too big together with
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the last free Comanche Herman goes to the reservation at Fort Sill
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oh [Music] most of them live in the Open Country in
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teepees but they have lost with reflects typical for them hunting and of course
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raids are forbidden the life they once knew is no more
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[Applause] [Music] only Chief Quanah Parker assimilated
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into the world of the whites and became a kind of foster father to Herman
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for almost two years Herman lived with him on the reservation until he was
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eventually recognized as a white among the Indians
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foreign as the Army brought him back he was very
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frightened he didn't know what was going on but Quanah Parker encouraged him to come
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kawanda told me that my family was still alive and that I should go home I told
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him that the Indians were my family that I would not go home with the whites
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[Music] but when he
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got back and his brothers and sisters came out and
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began to talk with him he began to realize
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that Willie was his brother and Mina was his sister
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his sister hadn't seen them for eight years what seemed like an eternity but a
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scar on his hand gives her assurance
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[Music] um
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slowly but surely the fog lifted In My Memory it became clear to me that I have
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found my family but I was an Indian and I do not like them because they were pale faces
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[Music]
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Herman's neighbors and his family thought that he would be very relieved to be home they assumed that he had been
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beaten and tortured and mistreated for eight years what they did not know was
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that he had risen to the position of a minor Chief and was very happy in his
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life as an adopted Apache and later Comanche
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with some difficulty he learned German and English again repeatedly he escaped
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from the world of the whites ate raw meat and slept under the Open Sky
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it's the greatest Indian empty story and I've tried to find out all the
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information that I possibly can and I realized how tough life must have been
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because he could not assimilate back into the white man's ways
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and yet the Indians ways were gone
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again and again he visits the Comanche at the reservation
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occasionally he tries to live there because in his heart he stays one of them
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[Music]
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we're bad people only because they're sight of the story has never been written down for me they are always my
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most loyal friends the most loyal friends
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twice Herman was married with his second wife they had five children both of his marriages failed also his
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career attempts in the world of the whites were not very successful his performance
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[Music] wild west shows however are legendary he
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impresses people with his skills in the art of writing as well as with his shooting and of course with his stories
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Herman Layman died in loyal Valley in 1932 two years before his grandson Wayne
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was born
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I am a white man born in 59. my name is
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Sherman Layman from the Mason County Line I was captured by carnivision
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Apache cheese so brave with my little brother Willie we became Indian slaves
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the Willie was a boy of eight he managed to get free I was just 11. a different
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fate awaited me I was beating tortured starved and seemed someone will never
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heal I became an Indian warrior in my heart I'll always feel
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late tide me naked to a bucking horse to survive I had to win
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fed me got some sour milk mine holding my skin ran a string of Rawhide through
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my ears the scars are there today I learned to hate in the white man and
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live my colorway foreign
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horses could have strood and scalped his head burned his home to the ground and left
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his family dead well I remember the Battle of Concho
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Plains in 1875 the Rangers killed us a one by one
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I escaped and survived Victorio and Geronimo said invite to our
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last breath for the life of the Indian who was about to meet his death
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that a medicine man who killed Carnival Steve my jeep was put into rest I have
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been just death with my bow and three arrows in his breasts I had to leave the
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Apache tribe in their hard head filled with hate when I took him the life of a
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shaman I had sealed my face so I spent a year and hiding With The
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Wolves I did speak I lived a life of solitude in the canyon
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mall so steep to be a lonely hearted man began to take its toll gigging in my
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Indian heart fill up my soul and I joined the command shoes matajima became
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my name go to Power was my brother and always will remain
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wanna Parker adopted me I became his son but the plight of all Indians had only
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just begun and we've fought the triangle to talk aways and they were the devil's Beast
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never smoked a peace pipe on our Palestine they did peace they ran like
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evil rabid dogs and a bloodthirsty pack we burn our bodies on and oh little
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never once looked back and we kill a buffalo hunters and tried
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to save our land the time had come for the Indian Nation to make our lives down
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Corner Parker led the way to for Griffin we didn't go
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we laid down our rifles our arrows and our bow
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the white man was a poison to the land of my birth he stole her line on the
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Buffalo and ripped our mother earth battle now was in my heart all memory
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had been lost should I stay you wore your Brave with my life as the coast
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and they took me down to Fredericksburg the two's wrong from right I filled I
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was an Indian not a man that's white nine years had
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passed so slowly I hadn't seen my home but my heart was still an Indian the
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only life I'd ever known I returned a loyal Lolly my home from
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which I came I remembered Brother Willie and recognized my name
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my family wasn't a lot of love around this captured child the grace of God
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helped restore the Savage so wild let me in this battle that I thought is
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a Redmond or rewind was left a hole in my heart there is no
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wrong right there's only one creator that redeems a soul from sin no one can
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judge a man by the color of his skin so I became White and civilized
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thankful to survive through the years I have five kids and them too many wives I
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never betrayed my Indian heart or my people's Pride I remain Camanche until the day that I
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died I am a white man I died in 32. my name
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is shamer there's one thing that is true beneath my Mountain death highly where
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my life did starve D but the pathway to my Texas home
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oh ran through my heart foreign [Music]
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