Birthday of Goyaałé (Geronimo)

Goyaałé was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. Following the end of the Mexican-American war in 1848, Americans continued to encroach on Apache lands and attempted to confine the people on reservations. Geronimo led multiple escapes from the reservation with acts of resistance that enabled his people to continue their traditional ways of life for many years. In the final US Army campaign against Geronimo, it took more than 5,000 U.S. Army Cavalry soldiers, to subdue no more than 70 (only 38 by the end) Chiricahua Apache who fled the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation.