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Thu 19 Feb, 2009 10:14 am
HARTFORD, Conn. " Descendants of American Indian leader Geronimo are suing the federal 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.
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 a burial plot in Fort Sill, Okla., to keep in its New Haven clubhouse.
The society, which is not affiliated with the university, includes as members President William Howard Taft, President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and many others in powerful government and industry positions.
Harlyn Geronimo announced the federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the 100-year anniversary of Geronimo's death from pneumonia while being held as a prisoner of war.
good, they can replace them with GWB's bones, the sooner the better
as an aside, I have known 2 people whose names were Geronimo.
@dyslexia,
I sincerely hope the plaintiffs prevail in their suit. This kind of looting of the remains of the deceased is reprehensible. It was fear of the possibility of this kind of desecration that caused the family of another Apache chief, Cochise, to inter the Chiracahua leader in a secret place. It's doubtful that anyone alive today knows where exactly the bones of Cochise repose. According to some eye witnesses of the time it was an almost inaccessible crevice in the Chiracahua Mountains of Arizona. Geronimo, of course, as a prisoner of the US Army at Ft. Sill, OK, had no such choice.
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