The white man had burned their land raped their women and slaughtered their children. He had made them a nation of slaves and those he could not enslave he promised to destroy. The Apache had one hope: vengeance.. Out of the scattered remnants of the Apache tribes rose a man whose cunning ferocity and genuis for warfare would make him their leader in a last tragic struggle for survival.The Apache gave him their arms their strength and their absolute devotion. The white man gave him his name: Geronimo!