page_title: Geronimo
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Geronimo / Life after the massacre at Kas-Ki-Yeh / Family
caption_attribution_description: Geronimo, a Native American (Chiricahua Apache) man, a U. S. prisoner, poses outdoors near a group of tents. He wears a woven blanket and beaded cap. He has defended his people from the harm of the U.S land takeover.
context_page_description: Geronimo was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache tribe. From 1850 to 1886, Geronimo joined with members of three other Chiricahua 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. Geronimo's raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of the Apache–United States conflict, which started with American settlement in Apache lands following the end of the war with Mexico in 1848.
  While well known, Geronimo was not a chief of the Chiricahua or the Bedonkohe band. However, since he was a superb leader in raiding and warfare, he frequently led large numbers of men beyond his own following. At any one time, he would be in command of about 30 to 50 Apaches.
  During Geronimo's final period of conflict from 1876 to 1886, he "surrendered" three times and accepted life on the Apache reservations in Arizona.
context_section_description: Geronimo married Chee-hash-kish, and they had two children, Chappo and Dohn-say. Then he took another wife, Nana-tha-thtith, with whom he had one child. He later had a wife named Zi-yeh at the same time as another wife, She-gha, one named Shtsha-she and later a wife named Ih-tedda. Geronimo's ninth and last wife was Azul.
  The great-great-grandson of Geronimo, Harlyn Geronimo teaches Apache language lessons at Mescalero Apache Reservation as of 2019.
caption: Geronimo as a U.S. prisoner in 1905
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