banned by the state of Arizona from ever returning to his homeland, not even to die there.Geronimo - a name shouted by the gallant men of the 101st and 82nd Airborne as they jumped from their airplanes during World War II died at Fort Sill, Okla., in 1909.
Taken from his homeland in chains because he stood up as a patriot to defend his people, Geronimo died In exile far from his beloved mountains of Arizona.
He made peace with President Theodore Roosevelt by becoming a part of his inaugural procession in 1905 but was still held a prisoner at Fort Sill until his death.
U.S. Census 2000 will target the American Indian community using the portraits of Geronimo and other great chiefs, and it will. probably find probably find that the poorest counties in the United States are still on the Indian reservations of America.
The more things change the more they stay the same. Geronimo!
Tim Giago is publisher of Giago Book Publishing L.L.C. C. in, Sioux Falls, S.D. This piece was distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune