I have understood the parade to be supposed to symbolise that the hatchet was buried and that all peoples of the nation rallied behind the republican idea of America. But I’m by no means a historian - would love to hear a more enlightened take on it!
I guess it’s also a period in which people were going crazy about Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show - it’s a strange period of history in which the glorification and mythification of the past started before the dust had even settled.
I have understood the parade to be supposed to symbolise that the hatchet was buried and that all peoples of the nation rallied behind the republican idea of America. But I’m by no means a historian - would love to hear a more enlightened take on it!
I’m not well-informed on the parade myself, just seems odd to include Geronimo as a uniting symbol at the time.
I guess it’s also a period in which people were going crazy about Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show - it’s a strange period of history in which the glorification and mythification of the past started before the dust had even settled.