The Mystery Of Geronimo’s Missing Skull — And The DNA Test That Could Finally Reveal The Truth
The tribe is federally recognized and maintains its own government at Mescalero, New Mexico, near Ruidoso.
The Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, headquartered in Lawton, represents the descendants of the Fort Sill prisoners who remained in Oklahoma.
It is also federally recognized.
The White Mountain Apache Tribe in Arizona, the San Carlos Apache Tribe in Arizona, the Jicarilla Apache Nation in New Mexico, and the Tonto Apache Tribe in Arizona are other federally recognized Apache communities, each with their own histories and their own relationships to the Apache past.
These communities have their own perspectives on Geronimo, on the skull mystery, and on the appropriate resolution.