It is about the dignity of the dead and the right of communities to maintain connection to their ancestors.

Whatever skull may be in the Skull and Bones Tomb — whether it is Geronimo’s or that of another Apache person who died at Fort Sill — it is the remains of a human being who deserves to be returned to the community from which they came.

The People Who Have Kept The Story Alive

The Geronimo skull mystery has been kept alive through the decades by a combination of Apache descendants, journalists, historians, and researchers whose motivations and methods have been various.

Ned Anderson’s 1986 campaign was driven by a specific political and cultural goal: the repatriation of Apache remains to Arizona, of which the Geronimo skull question was one dimension.