Hi Gloria and Joe!!! I am so excited that you are going to be blogging with our class during Geronimo. I have finished the first part of the book, and I absolutely love it! I love the focus that is put on family in the book. The ties between Geronimo and the other tribe members are so close and important. I admire the respect that is common among the Native American culture. I feel that everyone respects the elders within the tribes, they respect each other, and they respect themselves. I feel that Americans as a whole are very disrespectful. The majority of the youth of today have no respect for their parents, let alone themselves. Parents are not viewed as people with knowledge and life experience, but they are viewed as blockades for children just "trying to have fun" and live their lives. I feel that an importance on family should be instilled back into the lives and habits of Americans. I feel that if we cared more about the whole community of people instead of ourselves, we as a nation would be in a better state today. Family is family, something that should be cherished; not degraded and destroyed as it is being today.