Geronimo

(Cross-posted from Haw Creek Reflections)

Of them all, Geronimo is the name most recognized today, over 100 years after his death – perhaps appropriate, given that his small band was the last of the independent  Indian¹ warriors who had refused to accept the United States occupation of the American West.

Age 74, ©1June 2, 1903	Photo by Warren Mack Oliver, ©1907	Age 78, ©1906
Photo by H. H. Clark, between 1900 and 1909. Women describe variously as “two nieces” or “a daughter and a niece.”	1907 photo by A.B. Canady, Altoona, Kas.	Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha, Nebraska. Photo by Frank A. Rinehart or his assistant Adolph F. Muhr ©1898

With a well-known historical figure such as Geronimo, there is a wealth of information – and misinformation – available online.  Rather recreating any of that here, I will simply offer  Geronimo’s Story of His Life, published posthumously in 1915, opening on page 17, Chapter III, Early Life:

¹According to a 1995 U.S. Census Bureau set of home interviews, most of the respondents with an expressed preference refer to themselves as “American Indians” or simply “Indians”; this term has been adopted by major newspapers and some academic groups, but does not traditionally include Native Hawaiians or certain Alaskan Natives, such as Aleut, Yup’ik, or Inuit peoples. (Wikipedia)

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Additional Information

Apache (Just a sample of what’s available on a Google search on “Apache tribe”)

• Indians.org
• Wikipedia
• White Mountain Apache Tribe
• Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
• Yavapai-Apache Nation
• Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
• Lipan Apache tribe of Texas
• Jicarilla Apache Nation
• Texas State Historical Association

American Indians

• National Congress of American Indians
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Indians.org
• American Indian College Fund
• Native Americans in the United States (Wikipedia)
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas (Wikipedia)
• and more from Google search on American Indian