He was buried at Fort Sill, in the Apache prisoner-of-war cemetery, because that is where prisoners of war at Fort Sill were buried.

He was not buried in Arizona because he had not been allowed to return to Arizona.

If his grave was then robbed nine years after his death — if his skull was taken to Yale by young men who thought a famous Apache leader’s skull would make an amusing addition to their secret society’s collection — that would represent a continuation of the pattern: powerful people making decisions about Geronimo’s body without the consent of his community.

The captivity did not end with his death, if the accounts are accurate.