you or for your great father in Washington, or from any regard for his or your wishes, but a conquered chief, to try to save alive the...

few that still remain to me", sent shivers up my spine.

i was taken aback by his words as well. His bluntness really makes you think twice about our government back then

I thought the last three lines were very telling. The first, "If from his abundance..." it felt as though Cochise...

was trying to make his enemies feel guilty for what has happened to his people. But then he follows it up with, "If not," which basically...

...he is saying, if you don't help us, I will provide. He's telling his former enemy that they are going to live one regardless.

and then he ends it with, "I have spoken!" Classic.

I thought his speech was very eyeopening. while you learn about slavery all the way from childhood, native americans arent discussed as much

I felt the same way when I had a unit about Asian history. I feel like, in high school at least, we don't learn about a lot of the ..

problems we as a country are responsible for.

Cochise subtly demands respect, and I like that.The Native Americans were very oppressed.To maintain the stature of Cochise was respectable.

I really liked his last line too, "I have spoken". It's very authoritative and implies that he's not going to back down.