Geronimo at Fort Sam Houston in #Texas
Channel: indianz
Date: 2022-11-27

The famed Apache leader Geronimo, known as Goyaałé in the Chiricahua Apache language, was held by the U.S. government as a prisoner of war starting in 1886.

Learn a bit of Geronimo's history at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, with Edward J. Blauvelt, who serves as chair of the Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph American Indian Heritage Committee.

Blauvelt, who is Muscogee (Creek) and Mohawk, also discusses the service of Native Americans in the U.S. military.

Video by Alexander Goad and William Wagner / 502nd Air Base Wing Public Affairs 

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