Chiricahua: Geronimo, Cochise, Allan Houser, Lozen, Mescalero-Chiricahua language, Mangas Coloradas, Victorio, Battle of Fort Tularosa, Massai, Juh, Alma Massacre, Mildred Cleghorn, Dahteste, Chief Taza, Naiche

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Chapters: Geronimo, Cochise, Allan Houser, Lozen, Mescalero-Chiricahua language, Mangas Coloradas, Victorio, Battle of Fort Tularosa, Massai, Juh, Alma Massacre, Mildred Cleghorn, Dahteste, Chief Taza, Naiche. Excerpt: Geronimo (Mescalero-Chiricahua: "one who yawns"; June 16, 1829 ¿ February 17, 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who fought against Mexico and the United States for their expansion into Apache tribal lands for several decades during the Apache Wars. Allegedly, "Geronimo" was the name given to him during a Mexican incident. His Chiricahua name is often rendered as Goyathlay or Goyahkla in English. After an attack by a company of Mexican soldiers killed many members of his family in 1858, Geronimo joined revenge attacks on the Mexicans. During his career as a war chief, Geronimo was notorious for consistently urging raids and war upon Mexican Provinces and their various towns, and later against American locations across Arizona, New Mexico, and western Texas. In 1886 Geronimo surrendered to U.S. authorities after a lengthy pursuit. As a prisoner of war in old age he became a celebrity and appeared in fairs but was never allowed to return to the land of his birth. He later regretted his surrender and claimed the conditions he made had been ignored. Geronimo died in 1909 from complications of pneumonia at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Geronimo, Chiricahua Apache leader. Photograph by Frank A. Rinehart, 1898.Apache is the collective term for several culturally related groups of Native Americans originally from the Southwest United States. The current division of Apachean groups includes the Navajo, Western Apache, Chiricahua, Mescalero, Jicarilla, Lipan, and Plains Apache (formerly Kiowa-Apache). Geronimo was born into the Bedonkohe and married into the Chiricahua. Goyahkla was born to the Bedonkohe band of the Apache, near Turkey Creek, a tributary of the Gila River in the modern-day state of New Mexico, then part of Mexico, but which his family considered Bedonkohe land. His grandfather (Mako) had been chief of the Bedonkohe Apache. He had three brothers and four sisters. Goyahkla's parents raised him according to Apache traditions; after the