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Gerónimo ( Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaałé, Athapascan pronunciation: [kòjàːɬɛ́], lit. 'the one who yawns'; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people.
Oct 29, 2009 · Geronimo (1829-1909) was an Apache leader and medicine man best known for his fearlessness in resisting anyone–Mexican or American—who attempted to remove his people from their tribal...
Sep 6, 2016 · The man who would become the most feared Indian leader of the 19th century was born sometime in the 1820s into the Bedonkohe, the smallest band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe that...
May 28, 2024 · Geronimo was a Bedonkohe Apache leader of the Chiricahua Apache, who led his people’s defense of their homeland against the military might of the United States. For generations the Apaches had resisted white colonization of their homeland in the Southwest by both Spaniards and North Americans.
Feb 7, 2024 · For decades, Geronimo helped stave off a complete surrender of his people — until the Apache was overwhelmed, he was forced to surrender, and then turned into a sideshow exhibit by the American government. This is the story of Geronimo and his heroic fight for freedom and dignity.
Apr 2, 2014 · Geronimo was an Apache leader who continued the tradition of the Apaches resisting white colonization of their homeland in the Southwest, participating in raids into...
Jun 11, 2018 · Geronimo (1823?–1909), Apache Indian leader.To North Americans and Mexicans of the 1870s and 1880s, Geronimo personalized the horrors of Apache warfare. Never a chief, and despised by many of his people, he nonetheless attained leadership through mastery of the partisan fighting style that baffled U.S. and Mexican troops.
Sep 7, 2022 · Though never a tribal chief, Geronimo became the last native leader who surrendered to the United States, living his remaining life as a prisoner of war. Here we explore the life of this extraordinary Apache military leader through a collection of images.
Geronimo was a skilled and battle-hardened fighter who possessed superb knowledge of the terrain both in northwestern Mexico and the southern portion of the New Mexico Territory to the north.
Geronimo Campaign, between May 1885 and September 1886, was the last large-scale military operation of the Apache wars. It took more than 5,000 US soldiers, led by the two experienced US Army generals, in order to subdue no more than 70 (only 38 by the end of campaign) Chiricahua Apache who fled the San Carlos Reservation and raided parts of ...
