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Historians don't buy it. They say Geronimo is still buried at Fort Sill in Oklahoma and that many of the legends surrounding the Apache medicine man are more myth than reality.
The Army is putting to pasture five ceremonial horse units that bring the service’s cavalry history of the Old West to life ...
Geronimo died in 1909 of pneumonia while he was a prisoner at Fort Sill. The burial in the cemetery wasn't true to Apache tradition though, and his great-grandson wants to rebury his ancestor in ...
This was 1966, when many Native Americans still wore traditional dress (and, in fact, the Apache military leader Geronimo, was buried at the Fort Sill Indian Agency Cemetery).
AKELA, N.M. – The Fort Sill Apache Tribe broke ground on Tuesday on its new Chiricahua Plaza, a state-of-the-art full-service truck plaza, convenience store, and retail center.
The Fort Sill National Cemetery officials say volunteers are needed to place more than 10,000 flags at the headstones of veterans at Fort Sill National Cemetery in Elgin.
Geronimo's grave in the Apache cemetery at Fort Sill in Lawton, Okla. Historians say that many of the legends surrounding the famed Indian warrior, including one that his bones were removed by ...
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham is set to meet with the Chairwoman of the Fort Sill Apache Tribe. The plan is to discuss issues facing the tribe including economic ...
After Geronimo’s death in the Apache prison camp in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where the U.S. government had forced him into hard labor, it is rumored that Prescott Bush — father and grandfather to former ...
As of May, 2023 there were 9,700 grave markers at the Fort Sill National Cemetery, opened in November of 2001. For more information on the cemetery, click here.