. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] GERONIMO GHOST DANCE 491 alphal:)et, was a German of the Georgia colony. (a. f. c. ) Geronimo (Spanish lor Jerome, aj^plied by the Mexicans as a nickname; native name Goyathlay, ' one who yawns'). A medi- cine-man and prophet of tlie Chiricahua Apache who, in the latter part of the 19th century, acquired notoriety through his opposition to the authorities and by sys- tematic and sensational advertising; born about 1834 at the headwaters of Gila r., N. Mex., near old Ft Tulerosa. His father was Taklishim, 'The Gray One,'who was not a chief, although his father (
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] GERONIMO GHOST DANCE 491 alphal:)et, was a German of the Georgia colony. (a. f. c. ) Geronimo (Spanish lor Jerome, aj^plied by the Mexicans as a nickname; native name Goyathlay, ' one who yawns'). A medi- cine-man and prophet of tlie Chiricahua Apache who, in the latter part of the 19th century, acquired notoriety through his opposition to the authorities and by sys- tematic and sensational advertising; born about 1834 at the headwaters of Gila r., N. Mex., near old Ft Tulerosa. His father was Taklishim, 'The Gray One,'who was not a chief, although his father (Geroni- mo's grandfather) assumed to be a chief without heredity or election. Geroni- mo' s mother was known as Juana. When it was decided, in 1876, in consequence of depredations committed in Sonora, of. which the Mexican government com- plained, to remove the Chiricahua from their reservation on the s. frontier to San Carlos, Ariz., Geronimo and others of the younger chiefs fled into INIexico. He was arrested later when he returned with his band to Ojo Caliente, N. Mex., and tilled the ground in peace on San Carlos res. until the Chiricahua became discontented because the (Government would not help them irrigate their lands. In 1882 Geronimo led one of the bands that raided in Sonora and surrendered when surrounded by Gen. George H. Crook's force in the Sierra Madre. He had one of the best farms at San Carlos, when trouble arose in 1884 in consequence of the attempt of the authorities to stop the making of tiswin, the native intoxi- cant. During 1884-85 he gathered a band of hostiles, who terrorized the inhabit- ants of s. Arizona and New Mexico, as well as of Sonora and Chihuahua, in Mexico. Gen. Crook proceeded against them with instructions to capture or destroy the chief and his followers. In Mar., 1886, a truce was made, followed by a conference, at which the terms of sur- render were agreed on; but Geronimo and his followers having again fled to the Sierra IMadre across
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