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Published Date: 07 May 2009
A GROUP of Apache leader Geronimo's descendants is suing to stop another from moving the American Indian icon's bones.
Phillip Thompson, an attorney for the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, said his group and 18 members of the family of a man claiming to be Geronimo's great-grandson filed motions to leave the remains.


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  • Last Updated: 07 May 2009 9:45 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Wally,

By The Rivers Of Babylon (USA) 07/05/2009 19:31:16
I think it was 15-20 years ago a group of people Indian heritage, but not Apache, asked the FBI to look into reports that Geronimo's head was cut off around 1918. The FBI began an investigation, but shut it very shortly after. The story is that prescott Bush, grandfather of George W. Bush, dug up Geronimo's grave and cut the head off. The skull is said to sit at the Skull & Bones retreat in Connecticut at Yale University.

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mike - across the pond,

woah woah woah 07/05/2009 19:32:31
wait a dang minute....

wasnt it right here on the scotsman no more than 2 months ago that somebody was claiming that geronimos skull was in a frat house on the Yale campus?
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Wally,

By The Rivers Of Babylon (USA) 07/05/2009 20:48:15
Mike, there are many reports that Geronimo's skull is at Skull & Bones' temple in Yale University. This group is not a fraternity, it is a secret society.

it is a bit odd that 2 groups of people would petition courts to keep his body, but that nobody is seemingly concerned that his grave was robbed and his head taken.

Allegedly the bones of many famous people are at Skull & Bones.
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Carole Bass,

New Haven, CT USA 07/05/2009 23:27:22
The Yale Alumni Magazine has more coverage of this story, including a new interview with Yale's most prominent Native American alumnus, calling on the university to take a stand on the Geronimo case: www.yalealumnimagazine.com

 

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