Geronimo

Geronimo was a prominent leader from the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe. From 1850 to 1886 Geronimo joined with members of three other Chiricahua Apache bandsthe Chihenne, the Chokonen and the Nednhito carry out numerous raids as well as resistance to US and Mexican military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora, and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona. Geronimos raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the ApacheAmerican conflict, that started with American settlement in Apache lands following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848. The ApacheAmerican conflict was itself a direct outgrowth of the much older ApacheMexican conflict which had been ongoing in the same general area since the beginning of MexicanSpanish settlement in the 1600s.

Geronimo was born to the Bedonkohe band of the Apache, near Turkey Creek, a tributary of the Gila River in the modernday state of New Mexico, then part of Mexico, though the Apache disputed Mexicos claim. His grandfather, Mahko, had been chief of the Bedonkohe Apache. He had three brothers and four sisters.

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