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Aug 19, 2018 · The Apache Wars Part II: Geronimo. After his family was massacred, Geronimo would wear his hair short for the rest of his life. It was a sign of mourning among the Chiricahua Apache. Public Domain/US National Archives, Ben Wittick, 1887. Geronimo was not a chief, but a medicine man of the Bedonkehe band of the Chiricahua Apache.
Nov 18, 2019 · The Army’s all-out surge for Geronimo in 1886 was an attempt to finally end the drawn-out, 25-year war with the Chiricahua Apache of the American Southwest. For centuries, the Chiricahua had ...
Mar 7, 2018 · Born June 16, 1829, Geronimo was the son of Tablishim and Juana of the Bedonkohe band of the Apache. Geronimo was raised according to Apache tradition and lived along the Gila River in present-day Arizona. Upon coming of age, he married Alope of the Chiricauhua Apache and the couple had three children. On March 5, 1858, while he was away on a ...
Geronimo, 1886. Geronimo was born of the Bedonkohe Apache tribe in No-doyohn Canon, Arizona, in June 1829, near present-day Clifton, Arizona. The fourth in a family of four boys and four girls, he was called Goyathlay (One Who Yawns.) In 1846, when he was seventeen, he was admitted to the Council of the Warriors, which allowed him to marry.
Nov 22, 2022 · Geronimo led a group of 35 men, 8 boys, and 101 women for 10 months around the Arizona-Mexico border. In March 1886, Geronimo surrendered in Sonora, Mexico, but then promptly led a small group back on the run from U.S. authorities. Five thousand soldiers and 500 Native American auxiliaries were called upon to catch Geronimo and his small band.
In January 1863, Brig Gen. Joseph West, commander of the Department of New Mexico’s southern region, invited Mangas Coloradas to peace negotiations at Pinos Altos. When the chief arrived, the soldiers killed him and mutilated his body. The act was “the greatest of wrongs,” said Geronimo. The Apache raids continued unabated.
A Chiricahua Apache religious and military leader, Geronimo was born in the 1820s, perhaps near present Clifton, Arizona. His Apache name was Goyahkla (One Who Yawns). He achieved a reputation as a spiritual leader and tenacious fighter against those who threatened his people's ways of life. Later he was called Geronimo (Spanish for Jerome ...
