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  Geronimo
Geronimo was the leader of the last American Indian fighting force formally to capitulate to the United States.
Geronimo was never a chief, but a medicine man, a seer and a spiritual and intellectual leader both in and out of battle.
Geronimo became a rancher, appeared (1904) at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, sold Geronimo souvenirs, and rode in President Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 inaugural parade.
www.indians.org /welker/geronimo.htm   (1191 words)

  
  Geronimo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geronimo (Chiricahua Goyaałé 'One Who Yawns'; often spelled Goyathlay in English), (June 16, 1829–February 17, 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who long warred against the encroachment of the United States on tribal lands.
Geronimo was born near Turkey Creek, a tributary of the Gila River in what is now the state of Arizona, then part of Mexico, but which his family considered Bedonkohe Apache hell(tori) land.
Geronimo fought against numbers of both Mexican and United States troops and became famous for his daring exploits and numerous escapes from capture.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geronimo   (1384 words)

  
 Index : Apache Geronimo
The goal of the Geronimo project is to produce a server runtime framework that pulls together the best Open Source alternatives to create runtimes that meet the needs of developers and system administrators.
The Apache Geronimo project is pleased to announce the new v2.0.2 release.
Jetty configurations of Geronimo are not affected by this vulnerability.
geronimo.apache.org   (541 words)

  
 Geronimo Application Server - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Geronimo project is a free software application server developed by the Apache Software Foundation and distributed under the Apache license.
Geronimo is marked by a sleek architectural design which is based on the concept of Inversion of Control (IoC) (sometime called dependency injection), which means that the kernel has no direct dependency on any of its components.
A majority of the Geronimo services are added and configured through GBeans to become a part of the overall application server.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geronimo_Application_Server   (579 words)

  
 Native American Faces
Geronimo was born Goyathlay (One Who Yawns) in Arizona, grandson of a chief of the Nedni Apache, but his father married a Bedonkohe Apache and joined her tribe, thereby forfeiting his hereditary right as leader.
Prior to this event, Geronimo had been considered more a holy man than a warrior, but as a result of his loss he often spoke of his hatred for whites and coveted a vengeance that would bring him to kill as many as he could.
Geronimo was sent to a reservation in Florida for two years, where many died of malaria or tuberculosis.
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 Geronimo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It was the Spanish who raided and killed Geronimo's young wife and child and reportedly caused such a hatred of the whites that he vowed to kill as many as he could.
Geronimo finally surrendered on the urging of his followers in September after the Army promised that after a period of time he would be able to return to Arizona.
Geronimo never again saw his beloved Arizona and died a prisioner many years later on a reservation in Oklahoma.
www.powersource.com /gallery/people/geronimo.html   (454 words)

  
 Geronimo: The Last Free Apache   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The slaughter of Geronimo's family when he was a young man turned him from a peaceful Indian into a bold warrior.
Geronimo, along with a few hundred of his fellow Apaches, were shipped by box-car to Florida for imprisonment.
Geronimo was relocated to Fort Sill, Oklahoma and on February 17, 1909, as a prisoner of war, unable to return to his much loved homeland, died of pneumonia.
www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Rapids/9755/geronimo.html   (339 words)

  
 Geronimo - DesertUSA
Geronimo induces Nachez and a dozen and a half warriors to forget the handshake with Crook and abrogate the surrender agreement.
Geronimo faces General Nelson A. Miles, who came to the conference late, at his own convenience, after he had betrayed the loyal Chiricahua as well as faithful Warm Springs Apache bands by sending them from their reservation to exile in Florida.
Geronimo visualizes a new home of land, timber and water for the Apaches, who would be treated as reservation Indians, not as prisoners of war.
www.desertusa.com /ind1/geronimo.html   (3681 words)

  
 Geronimo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Geronimo was not a hereditary leader, but was the spokesman for his brother in law, Juh, and a medicine man. Juh was a Chiricahua Chief who had a speech impediment.
Geronimo and 450 Apache men, women and children were transported to Florida for a stay in Forts Marion and Pickens.
Geronimo then became a rancher and was later allowed by the United States government to sell photographs and memorabilia of himself at expositions.
www.frontiertrails.com /oldwest/Geronimo.htm   (636 words)

  
 Geronimo
He was named Geronimo by a group of Mexicans whom he raided in 1858, after the Mexicans had killed his family.
A war shaman of the Chiricahua Apaches, Geronimo was a skilled guerilla fighter with a strong enmity toward whites and a fierce loyalty to his people and commitment to freedom.
Geronimo was transferred to several prisons, and was eventually allowed to settle at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
www.multied.com /bio/rec/Geronimo.html   (292 words)

  
 Geronimo - MSN Encarta
Geronimo (1829-1909), Native American, leader of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, born in present-day Clifton, Arizona.
In 1876 the U.S. government attempted to move the Chiricahua from their traditional home to the San Carlos reservation; Geronimo then began ten years of intermittent raids against white settlements, alternating with periods of peaceful farming on the San Carlos reservation.
In March 1886, the American general George Crook captured Geronimo and forced a treaty under which the Chiricahua would be relocated in Florida; two days later Geronimo escaped and continued his raids.
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 Amazon.com: Geronimo - An American Legend: Video: Walter Hill,Jason Patric,Gene Hackman,Robert Duvall,Wes Studi,Matt ...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Perhaps what "Geronimo" the movie doesn't have, and thus didn't capture the attention of the critics and the public, is a blockbuster scene that raises you out of your seat.
Geronimo was truely a gentleman, a man of his word, loved his people and the land that was given to them, but willingly stood his ground on his principles, and the traditions of his people.
Geronimo then took off again with a group of followers, and the US Army hunted them down for a year before finally catching them and sending them to prison in Florida.
www.amazon.com /Geronimo-American-Legend-Walter-Hill/dp/0800133692   (2669 words)

  
 Negotiations with the Apache Chief Geronimo
Finally communications were opened with Geronimo, who was anxious to trade for cartridges and offered to give a horse for every ten.
Geronimo finally appointed an interview at a stated place, where he met Wilson and an interpreter.
Geronimo said that Juh's widow did not want to give the child up but that he would compel her to if he could get the cartridges in exchange.
www.logoi.com /notes/negotiation_apache_chief_geronimo.html   (441 words)

  
 Geronimo
Geronimo was born about 1823 in southern Arizona.
His real name was Goyahkla, which means “He Who Yawns.” As a boy he learned the typical skills: running long distances on foot, staying awake and alert for long periods, getting by on little food and water, hunting, riding, and using a bow and arrow, skinning knife, lance, and club.
In 1851, Geronimo was leading a party from the Mogollon mountains of New Mexico into Mexico to trade at Casas Grandes in Chihuahua.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/old_west/22810   (421 words)

  
 Geronimo   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Geronimo was born in southern Arizona, present-day Clifton, and given the name Goyathlay, meaning "one who yawns." The Mexicans later gave him the name Geronimo, which is Spanish for Jerome.
Geronimo was chief of the southern Chiricahua tribe of Apache Indians.* In 1876, when the Chiricahua reservation was dismantled by the U.S. government and the Apaches were relocated to the dry San Carlos reservation in New Mexico, Geronimo led his followers into Mexico.
Geronimo became a national figure when he made an appearance at the 1904 2793:St. Louis] World’s Fair and was included in Theodore Roosevelt’s inaugural procession in 1905.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1218.html   (418 words)

  
 Cochise & Geronimo: The Chiricahua Apaches - DesertUSA
Geronimo, a Bedonkohe Apache leader of the Chiricahua Apache, led his people's defense of their homeland against the U.S. military after the death of Cochise.
Geronimo surrendered in January 1884, but took flight from the San Carlos reservation in May 1885, accompanied by 35 men, 8 boys and 101 women.
Geronimo and his fellow prisoners were put to hard labor, and it was May 1887 before he saw his family.
www.desertusa.com /magfeb98/feb_pap/du_apache.html   (950 words)

  
 ICT [2005/12/25]  Congress petitioned for return of Geronimo's remains
Apache leaders want Geronimo to be buried, as he requested, in tribal lands in the mountains of San Carlos.
The petition for the return and reburial of Geronimo's skull states that Skull and Bones is a secret society founded at Yale in 1832.
Since the initial leak of information to the Apache leaders, other sources have confirmed that Geronimo's skull is, as asserted in the petition, indeed on display in The Tomb and considered the ''mascot'' of this ''club'' on High Street.
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096412153   (818 words)

  
 Apache Releases First Code for Geronimo's Open Source J2EE [OETrends.Com]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Source and binaries for Geronimo's first milestone build, which includes four (4) key components, are available from the ASF website, after 9 months of development.
ASF member and Geronimo committer told Open Enterprise Trends "Assuming all goes well, we hope to be [self-]certified by August." Currently, the Geronimo project team includes 20 committers and dozens of active contributors and community members.
Given how much progress the Geronimo team has made, Magnusson said the Geronimo project is looking for help in a variety of areas, including development of the core, building demo apps, helping spec an example for a use case for writing a stateless session bean, and especially documentation.
www.oetrends.com /news.php?action=view_record&idnum=327   (1376 words)

  
 Geronimo
Geronimo, a member of the Bedonkohe Apache tribe, was born in Arizona in 1823.
Geronimo became a war leader and in 1858 Geronimo and his warriors won a great victory at Namaquipa.
Geronimo was eventually released and by April 1878 he was leading war parties in Mexico.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWgeromino.htm   (459 words)

  
 Geronimo
Geronimo took revenge for the death of his family.
Geronimo and his friends were shipped like cows to St. Augustine, Florida.
Geronimo was buried in the cemetery at Fort Sill.
www.sirinet.net /~project/Geronimo.html   (584 words)

  
 Native Americans   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Among the Apache Indians who resisted government removal of their people from treaty-guaranteed reservations in the late nineteenth century, Geronimo was the boldest and most determined.
Beginning in the mid-1870's, he led his Chiricahua warriors in numerous raids designed to thwart efforts to displace his people from their Southwest lands, and by 1885 he was orchestrating an all-out campaign against white settlements in parts of Arizona and New Mexico.
This photograph was made in 1890 during Geronimo's temporary confinement at Mount Vernon barracks in Mobile County, Alabama.
www.npg.si.edu /col/native/geronimo.htm   (162 words)

  
 Geronimo essays
Geronimo was a legend for over a generation after his death in 1909.
Geronimo fled the reservation again in 1885 with 35 warriors and 109 women and children.
Geronimo and hundreds of other Apaches were shipped into Fort Marion, Florida, and then off to Alabama where a lot were wiped out from disease.
www.megaessays.com /viewpaper/26538.html   (518 words)

  
 Geronimo
Geronimo is one of the most known Apache-warrior today.
He was repeatedly captured, but somehow he always manage to escape, and continue his fight for freedom in the wild and unreliable mountains.
Geronimo died on the17th of February 1909 after a pneumonia...
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 The Straight Dope: Why do parachutists yell "Geronimo!" when jumping from an airplane?
The custom of yelling "Geronimo!" is attributed to Aubrey Eberhardt, a member of the U.S. Army's parachute "test platoon" that demonstrated the feasibility of parachute troop drops at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1940.
The men were nervous about this, and to relieve the tension a group of them went to see a western at the post movie house the night before the jump.
Some people claim that jumpers yell "Geronimo!" because if their main chute hasn't opened by the time they're done, they know it's time to deploy the reserve chute.
www.straightdope.com /classics/a5_146.html   (698 words)

  
 The Yale Herald - October 24, 2003 - Of skulls and bones: More secrets of the tomb
His "trophy" is the skull of Geronimo, the Native American spiritual and military leader laid to rest in 1909 at Fort Still, Oklahoma, where Bush and fellow Bonesmen were stationed nine years later.
She attests to the legitimacy of the story, "The text looks to be an authentic Bones document describing Prescott Bush and other Bonesmen robbing Geronimo's grave and cleaning the skull with carbolic acid." In interviews with Robbins, Bonesmen have admitted that there is a skull in the tomb that they call Geronimo.
The skull of Geronimo, an Apache chief, is rumored to be in the possession of Skull and Bones.
www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=2523   (1298 words)

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