Geronimo's Story of His Life

Geronimo was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe. From 1850 to 1886 Geronimo joined with members of three other Chiricahua Apache bands—the Tchihende, the Tsokanende and the Nednhi—to 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. Geronimo's raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the Apache–United States conflict, which started with American settlement in Apache lands following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848.

Contents:

The Apaches

Origin of the Apache Indians

Subdivisions of the Apache Tribe

Early Life

Tribal Amusements, Manners, and Customs

The Family

The Mexicans

Kas-ki-yeh

Fighting under Difficulties

Raids that were Successful

Varying Fortunes

Other Raids

Heavy Fighting

Geronimo's Mightiest Battle

The White Men

Coming of the White Men

Greatest of Wrongs

Removals

In Prison and on the Warpath

The Final Struggle

Surrender of Geronimo

A Prisoner of War

The Old and the New

Unwritten Laws of the Apaches

At the World's Fair

Religion

Hopes for the Future