Whether such cooperation has been formally requested, and what the Army’s response has been, is not established in the public record.

The Bones: What Various Items Were Said To Have Been Taken

The 1918 letter describes more than a skull.

Mead’s letter mentions “his well-worn femurs, bit and saddle horn” — the femur bones, and what appears to be horse tack that was buried with Geronimo or associated with him.

This detail is interesting for several reasons.

First, the inclusion of personal items suggests that whoever removed the remains was attempting to take material that was associated specifically with Geronimo — not just a random skull, but items that might identify the remains as his.

A saddle horn or bit buried with Geronimo would have been part of the burial goods associated with his specific grave, not something found at just any Apache grave.