Geronimo

Leader of the Bedonkohe Apache (1829-1909)

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Lived 1829–1909, aged 80United States

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1829–1909
Aged 80

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Updated 2026-06-01

Gerónimo was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. S.

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Gerónimo was a military leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Ndendahe Apache people. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Central Apache bands – the Tchihende, the Tsokanende and the Nednhi – to carry out numerous raids, as well as fight against Mexican and U.S. military campaigns in the northern Mexico states of Chihuahua and Sonora and in the southwestern American territories of New Mexico and Arizona.

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