Justice Department lawyers have moved to dismiss claims against the government in a lawsuit over the remains of the legendary Apache
warrior Geronimo.
In February, a group of Native Americans claiming to have descended from the 19th century military leader sued the government, as well as Yale University and the Order of the Skull and Bones, in an attempt to retrieve Geronimo’s remains. After his death in 1909, Geronimo’s body was buried at the Fort Sill United States Army Base in Lawton, Oklahoma. But according to popular lore, members of the Yale secret society broke into his tomb and stole his skull, which it now keeps on display in New Haven.
Read the full blog posted by Jordan Weissmann on the June 12, 2009 edition of The BLT: The Blog of LegalTimes.
