Geronimo (Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaałé [kòjàːɬɛ́] "the
one who yawns"; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader
from the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe. From 1850 to 1886
Geronimo joined with members of three other Chiricahua Apache bands—the
Chihenne, the Chokonen and the Nednhi—to carry out numerous raids and commit
widespread depredations in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora,
and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona. Geronimo's
raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the
Apache-American conflict, that started with American settlement in Apache lands
following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848. The Apache-American conflict
was itself a direct outgrowth of the much older Apache-Mexican conflict which
had been ongoing in the same general area since the beginning of
Mexican/Spanish settlement in the 1600's.
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| Edward S. Curtis, Portrait of Geronimo, 1905 |
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