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| | Honoring Heroes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Born in No-doyohn Canyon, Arizona, in June 1829, as a child Geronimo was "warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds, and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes." He was then called Goyahkla and did not adopt the name Geronimo---the Spanish equivalent of Jerome, the patron saint---until adulthood. |
 | | Taught the legends of his people, Geronimo learned to kneel in prayer to Usen (the Apache name for God), while his father told stories about war, offering him the same advice handed down by every Apache father to his son: "No one is your friend, not even your sister, your father, or your mother. |
 | | Despite his peaceful ways, he was removed by the government from his position as chief in 1877, and he and his people were removed to the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota. |
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