Geronimo's grave site is in the Apache cemetery at Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla.
Posted on 08/10/2010 8:37:57 AM PDT by JoeProBono
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by descendants of the Apache warrior Geronimo, who claimed some of his remains were stolen in 1918 by a Yale University secret society.
The lawsuit was filed last year in Washington by 20 descendants who want to rebury Geronimo near his New Mexico birthplace......
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That is the first time that I have seen that photo, it is an incredible image and top that he is wearing.
It might be possible to do DNA testing on the skull that the Yale society has and possibly to determine if it could be Geronimo’s (if he has living relatives)...but if the tests did not confirm that it is Geronimo’s skull, the people making the accusations now would dismiss them as meaningless.
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Thanks JoeProBono. This allegation was a giant crock in the first place. |
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Geronimo's grave site is in the Apache cemetery at Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla.
Oh great, now Zahi Hawass will see this pic (he lurks on FR all the time) and demand the return of Geronimo to his native land of Egypt.
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