![]() paratroopers began to shout his name as they jumped out of planes, to prove their fearlessness. After watching a 1939 Western about his life, U.S. The character of Geronimo has starred in more than 20 films – silent movies, made-for-TV broadcasts, epic sagas. He became 20th century America’s first one-name celebrity, a romanticized survivor of the old Wild West, who at the end of his life sold tourists his autograph and buttons off his clothing for 25 cents a pop. ![]() ![]() Demonized during his three decades of hostilities with settlers and soldiers, Geronimo often now is lionized as a man who was pushed to breaking by the murder of his family, a freedom fighter defending his people and their way of life. More than a century after his 1909 death while a POW at Fort Sill, his name inspires tributes even – or, maybe, especially – from the military force he eluded and embarrassed for years. Some leave behind offerings: A knotted prayer cloth, tied to a nearby tree. Visitors trickle in, pausing for photos by the cobblestone pyramid. ![]() Through the gate of a rusting chainlink fence, a well-worn path curves left toward the grave of the most famous Indian who ever lived. Its marble nameplate is carved with a single word: GERONIMO. The monument offers no eulogy, no dates, no details. "In this lawsuit, we're going to find out if the bones are there or not," said the group's lawyer, said the group's lawyer, Ramsey Clark, who was attorney general in President Lyndon Johnson's administration.In the dappled shade of the Fort Sill Apache Prisoner Of War Cemetery in Comanche County, beneath a spread-winged eagle of concrete, a cobblestone pyramid rises above the surrounding graves. Sill and stole his skull, some bones and other items buried with him. The descendants say they are investigating long-held claims that in 1918, members of Skull and Bones, including Prescott Bush, the father of George H.W Bush and grandfather of George W. Skull and Bones has never said whether any of Geronimo's remains are in its possession. "I believe it's a good cause because indigenous people over the century have been annihilated, removed from their homeland," said Geronimo's great grandson, Harlyn Geronimo, at a press conference in Washington, D.C. The lawsuit also names President Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Army Secretary Pete Geren as defendants because they are responsible for maintaining Geronimo's remains on a U.S. On the 100th anniversary of the death of Geronimo, 20 of his blood relatives have asked the courts to force Yale University and the school's secret organization, Skull and Bones, to release his remains for return to his native land and a proper burial. It's also the stuff of a new lawsuit filed Tuesday by descendants of that Apache chief. It's the stuff of legends: an elite secret society that includes what would become some of the most powerful men of the 20th century allegedly invading the grave of an Apache chief to steal his skull for fraternal rituals. The great grandson of Geronimo says he wants to know whether Skull and Bones secret society at Yale University has the remains of the famous Apache chief and shaman. Geronimo's Great Grandson Asks Yale Secret Society to Return Ancestor's Skull
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