Thursday, February 19, 2009

The Bones of Geronimo

The famed Apache resistance leader, Geronimo, does not rest in peace according to his descendants who filed suit against the exclusive Skull and Bones society at Yale University on the 100th anniversary of war chief's death at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.  The suit claims that members of the Skull and Bones society took Geronimo's remains from the burial plot at Fort Sill.  According to lore Prescott Bush, grandfather of the previous occupant, and others dug up the grave during the First World War.  Great grandson Harlyn Geronimo told the press that he wants the remains returned and reburied near the birthplace of the feared warrior and medicine man in the Gila Wilderness, New Mexico.   
[artwork by Arnold Friberg, Geronimo: "I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.  I was born were there were no enclosures."]