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Fighting for Geronimo’s Remains

by | May 15, 2010 | Features & Gunfights

Geronimo descendants are on opposing sides of where the famed medicine man’s body should rest.
“It is my land, my home, my fathers’ land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains.” Geronimo’s mournful words published in his autobiography have touched off a furor spanning a century and thousands of miles, with a cast including his living rela


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