Skull and bones yale
We're tired of waiting and we're coming after them." "I want them to understand we mean business," said Harlyn Geronimo, who lives in New Mexico. Their lawsuit also names President Obama, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Army Secretary Pete Geren as defendants. Harlyn Geronimo, 61, wants those remains and any held by the federal government turned over to the family so they can be reburied near the Indian leader's birthplace in southern New Mexico's Gila Wilderness. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush - dug up his grave when a group of Army volunteers from Yale were stationed at the fort during World War I, taking his skull and some of his bones. Geronimo was eventually sent to Fort Sill and died at the Army outpost of pneumonia in 1909.Īccording to lore, members of Skull and Bones - including former President George W. Nelson Miles near the Arizona-New Mexico border in 1886. and Mexican armies, Geronimo and 35 warriors surrendered to Gen. John Kerry and many others in powerful government and industry positions are members of the society, which is not affiliated with the university.Īfter years of famously fighting the U.S. The federal lawsuit filed in Washington on Tuesday - the 100th anniversary of Geronimo's death - also names the university and the federal government.īoth Presidents Bush, Massachusetts Sen. Geronimo's descendants have sued Skull and Bones - the secret society at Yale University linked to presidents and other powerful figures - claiming that its members stole the remains of the legendary Apache leader decades ago and have kept them ever since. AFP PHOTO/HO/NATIONAL ARCHIVES = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE = GETTY OUT = (Photo credit should read HO/AFP/Getty Images) HO/AFP/Getty Images
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The suit, which names US President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates among the defendants, seeks "to free Geronimo, his remains, funerary objects and spirit from 100 years of imprisonment at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the Yale University campus at New Haven, Connecticut and wherever else they may be found." The remains would be returned to Geronimo's wilderness birthplace in the western United States for a true Apache burial, a key facet of the native American tribe's culture. On the 100th anniversary of the death of legendary Apache warrior Geronimo, 20 of his descendants filed suit on Februin a US federal court, asking that his spirit and remains be freed. Facebook Twitter Email TO GO WITH AFP STORY: US-history-native-justice Geronimo's heirs sue to free Apache chief's spirit.This National Archives file image taken in 1887 shows Geronimo (Goyathlay), a Chiricahua Apache full-length, kneeling with rifle.