Pursuant to the Operation Geronimo now shrouded in a cloud of “No, we aren’t going to give you any evidence beyond our word” maneuver? Well, no.
The committee hearing is on Racial Stereotyping as applied to American Indians and they HAD first dibs on naming rights, after the Chiricahua Apache and St Jerome (in Spanish it’s Geronimo) of course, but definitely somewhere further up the line than the Navy SEALS assassination squad/highly organized lynching. At the time Geronimo was arrested on essentially Terrorism charges, not much was known about Apache sepulture, either rituals or where the graves went. But instead of burying him in Arizona, Mexico, New Mexico or Colorado, in an Apache ceremony, they buried him at Ft Sill OK.
In the Apache (Prisoner Of War) section of the base cemetery. There’s a couple of new legends come about, that the skull of the Skull and Bones society was his. Wouldn’t surprise me at all. Folks who get a giggle from handling parts of dead humans would get an extra thrill from robbing an army Cemetery and the racist factor would make it even sweeter for them.
There’s an extra legend that representatives from some of the larger Apache Tribes, Chricahua, Mescalero, Jicarillo and White Mountain, re-buried him in a secret location.
Which, really, at the time of his death, Apache rituals for burial were actually secret, and I’ve had no desire whatsoever to disrespect their customs by “digging around” asking rude questions. But from somewhere the now familiar refrain of “we don’t want his followers making a shrine of his grave” was pulled out and he was buried in Ft Sill instead of New Mexico.
There was a lawsuit against the United States Army and the Skull and Bones society filed in 2009 and dismissed LAST YEAR, seeking the return of the skull and bones so they could be returned to be reburied in New Mexico.
On the 99th anniversary of Geronimo’s death a group of 20 of the warrior’s decendants sued the U.S. government, Skull and Bones and Yale in an attempt to rebury their ancestor’s bones near his birthplace.
In 2010 Judge Richard Roberts granted a Justice Department motion to dismiss the suit. Geronimo’s relatives, he said, failed to establish that the government waived its right not to be sued. Roberts also dismissed the lawsuit against Skull and Bones and Yale, saying the plaintiffs cited a law that applies only to Native American cultural items excavated or discovered after 1990.
Meaning. if you’re Rich enough and have enough ties to the Officially Unofficial American Aristocracy, you can do with the bones of any Mere Peasant whatever the fuck you want.
A Bush-appointed probably-skull-and-bones member, so-called “Justice” said so.
The so-called “Justice Department” didn’t want to investigate or prosecute the desecration of Indian graves, what a SURPRISE that was. Bunch of Racist Pricks.
Maybe somebody should find out where Judge Roberts Momma is buried, dig her nasty mouldered ass out of the ground and chop THAT up, see how HE and the other Racist Pricks like THAT?
I think the Bush Family used Geronimo’s bones to sodomize each other.