Family Sues For Return Of Geronimo's Skull


Family Sues For Return of Geronimo's Skull

One hundred years ago on February 17, 1909, legendary Chiricahua Apache Warrior Chief Geronimo, died of pneumonia in a filthy cell while a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Today his descendants are fighting to take him and his fellow warriors back home.

Citing provisions of the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, Harlyn Geronimo and 19 members of his family are suing the federal government as well as the elite top secret Skull & Bones Society for the return of their ancestor.

According to an article in the Washington Post, great -grandson Harlyn Geronimo said at a news conference “Presently, he’s still imprisoned. The only way to put this into closure is to relieve the remains and his spirit so that he can be taken back to his homeland, on the Gila Mountains, at the head of the Gila River.”

"If remains are not properly buried," Harlyn continued, " the spirit is just wandering, wandering, until a proper burial has been performed."

I want them to understand we mean business," said Harlyn Geronimo, who lives in New Mexico. "We're very serious. We're tired of waiting and we're coming after them."

In 1886, after decades of resistance to foreign intruders, Geronimo and 35 warriors were forced to surrender to General Nelson Miles near the Arizona - New Mexico border. Eventually shipped to Fort Sill, Geronimo and his men spent the rest of their lives in chains at the military outpost.

According to a popular legend, members of the Skull & Bones, a secret society associated with Yale University, stole Geronimo's skull, some other bones and funerary items from his grave and took them to their High Street Tomb in New Haven Connecticut. It has long been rumored that pledges to the secret society must perform various rituals which include kissing Geronimo's skull.

Skull & Bones membership includes 3 generations of the Bush family, Prescott Bush, son George H. W. Bush, class of '48 and grandson George W. Bush, class of '68.

Because Geronimo was buried on a U.S, military base, President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of the Army Pete Geren are also named as defendants in the suit.

The Fort Sill Apache Tribe opposes the move.

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