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and Mexican armies, Geronimo and 35 warriors surrendered near the Arizona-New Mexico border in 1886.

Harlyn Geronimo, 61, announced the federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the 100th anniversary of Geronimo's death.Īfter years of famously fighting the U.S. Bush, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and many others in powerful government and industry positions. The society, which is not affiliated with the university, includes as members former presidents William Howard Taft, George H.W. Geronimo's great-grandson, Harlyn Geronimo, said they believe members of the secretive group Skull and Bones took some of the remains in 1918 from the Apache Indian Prisoner of War Cemetery in Fort Sill, Okla., to keep in its New Haven, Conn., clubhouse. government, Yale University and a powerful secret society at the Ivy League school in hopes of returning the Apache chief's remains to New Mexico. Read TIME's story about the Skull and Bones secret society.HARTFORD, Conn.–Descendants of warrior Geronimo are suing the U.S. It still can't ward off campus rumors of the skull appearing in the society's nocturnal initiation rites, staring hollowly at the future rulers of the nation whose expansion he fought so fiercely. A flurry of lawsuits to retrieve Geronimo's skull followed, but have been deflected by the Skull and Bones, which denies possession of the Apache's remains. The second "tomb" mentioned presumably refers to the society's windowless, red stone edifice in New Haven. is now safe inside the tomb together with his well worn femurs, bit and saddle horn." A letter written by one of the members of the society in 1918 was brought to light by a New Haven–based researcher four years ago: "The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible," it read, "exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club. Bush, allegedly dug up Geronimo's grave while serving as army volunteers in Oklahoma during World War I. captivity in 1909: six members of Yale's Skull and Bones secret society, including Prescott Bush, grandfather of 43rd President George W. and Mexican troops for nearly three decades until his capture in 1886.īut, as the story goes, the legendary rebel was not allowed to lie in peace after his death in U.S. The Apache warlord Geronimo, part guerrilla, part shaman, launched raids across the Southwest and harried and evaded U.S. It's a strange fate that the bones of one of America's most fearful enemies have come to define one of its most hallowed institutions of power.