Geronimo

File:Geronimo (Goyathlay), a Chiricahua Apache, full-length, kneeling with rifle, 1887 - NARA - 530880.jpg

Geronimo

Geronimo (Chiricahua Goyaałé 'One Who Yawns'; often spelled Goyathlay in English), (June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a well-known Native American leader, but not chief, of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, but he was a Bedonkohe Apache. He was born in what is now the state of New Mexico and was also a respected medicine man. The name Geronimo was given to him by Mexican soldiers who either called to Saint Jerome while fighting him or transcribed his name into Spanish wrong. He led 38 Apache men, women, and children to resist being sent to reservations by the United States government or being captured by the Mexican Army. He surrendered in 1886. After that, he was moved to many different forts in the United States. In 1904 during the world fair in St. Louis, he sold souvenirs and pictures of himself. He died in 1909 from pneumonia.

Geronimo Media

• Goyaale.jpg

  Geronimo (Goyaałé), a Bedonkohe Apache, kneeling with rifle, 1887

• Apache chieff Geronimo (right) and his warriors in 1886.jpg

  From right to left, Apache leader Geronimo, Yanozha (Geronimo's brother-in-law), Chappo (Geronimo's son by his second wife), and Fun (Yanozha's half brother) in 1886. Taken by C. S. Fly.

• Geronimo and his warriors.jpg

  Photo by C. S. Fly of Geronimo and his warriors, taken before the surrender to Gen. Crook, March 27, 1886, in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico. Fly's photographs are the only known images of Indian combatants still in the field who had not yet surrendered to the United States.

• Charles Bare Gatewood.jpg

  Charles B. Gatewood, known to the Apache as Bay-chen-daysen, "Long Nose"

• Geronimo departing for Florida from Fort Bowie, Arizona (1895).jpg

  Geronimo departing for Florida from Fort Bowie, Arizona

• Apache prisoners.jpg

  Band of Apache Indian prisoners at rest stop beside Southern Pacific Railway, near Nueces River, Texas, September 10, 1886. (Geronimo is third from the right, in front)

• Geronimo agn 1913.jpg

  Geronimo with traditional Apache bow and arrow.

• Edward S. Curtis Geronimo Apache cp01002v.jpg

  Portrait of Geronimo by Edward S. Curtis, 1905

• Geronimo, as US prisoner.jpg

  Geronimo as a U.S. prisoner in 1905

• Ta-ayz-slath, wife of Geronimo, and one child.jpg

  Ta-ayz-slath, wife of Geronimo, and one child