Geronimo the Apache Chief

     Geronimo was born 1829 in Arizona. At a young age he became famous for going onto Mexican land and stealing their horses.  At 17 he joined the council of warriors for his tribe (Apache) to help fight off Mexicans and White settlers from colonizing on their homelands. Because of his great bravery and fierceness he became a very well feared and respected leader for the Chiricahau warpath group. In 1876 the U.S government attempted to move the Apache tribe to the San Carlos reservation which was a complete failure due to Geronimo and hundreds of other Apaches that took up arms against the government and fled the reservation. For the next ten years Geronimo and his group rained chaos on any white settlement  in the area they could find. He was captured in 1882 and forced onto another reservation where he once again escaped and fled into the Mexico  mountains with a small group of Indians. This was the U.S government last straw with his resistance, the president had over 5,000 American soldiers accompanied with 500 Indian scouts along with the help of 3,000 Mexican solider led a campaign into mexico to find Geronimo and his group. He finally surrendered in 1886. He died in 1909 and will be forever be know as the most famous and last leader to stop White colonization on Indian lands.