what is the true meaning of the word or name Geronimo?

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The name the whites gave Geronimo so what is his real indian name and why did in war wheb military jump from planes they would say Geronimo

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Geronimo (jərŏn'əmō') , c.1829–1909, leader of a Chiricahua group of the Apaches, b. Arizona. As a youth he participated in the forays of Cochise, Victorio, and other Apache leaders. When the Chiricahua Reservation was abolished (1876) and the Apaches removed to the arid San Carlos Agency in New Mexico, Geronimo led a group of followers into Mexico. He was soon captured and returned to the new reservation, where he farmed for a while. In 1881 he escaped again with a group (including a son of Cochise) and led raids in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. He surrendered (1883) to forces under Gen. George Crook and was returned to the reservation. In 1885 he again left, and after almost a year of war he agreed to surrender to Crook, but at the last minute Geronimo fled. His escape led to censure of Crook's policy. Late in 1886, Geronimo and the remainder of his forces surrendered to Gen. Nelson Appleton Miles, Crook's successor. They were deported as prisoners of war to Florida; contrary to an agreement, they were not allowed to take their families with them. After a further period in prison in Alabama, Geronimo was placed under military confinement at Fort Sill, Okla., where he settled down, adopted Christianity, and became a prosperous farmer. He became a national celebrity when he appeared at the St. Louis World's Fair and in Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural procession. He dictated his autobiography to S. M. Barrett (1906, repr. 1970).
Bibliography

See biography by A. B. Adams (1971); studies by B. Davis (1929, repr. 1963), J. Bigelow (1958, repr. 1968), and O. B. Faulk (1969).



American History
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(1829-1909), Apache Indian chief. When Geronimo died, he had been a legend for more than a generation. But his courage and determination did more than provide a battle cry for paratroopers of another day. It helped sustain the spirits of his people, the Chiricahua Apaches, in the last desperate days of the Indian wars.

Geronimo was born in the upper Gila River country of Arizona. He came to maturity in the final years of Mexican rule of the region. His antagonism toward the Mexicans was as deep-rooted as it was understandable. In one fateful encounter, Mexican soldiers killed his mother, his wife, and his three small children. This tragic event steeled the young man for a long life of frequent conflict.

In 1848, soon after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in which Mexico ceded extensive lands in the Southwest to the United States, the Anglo-Americans made it clear they intended to restrict the old patterns of raiding and territorial use by the different Apache bands. The Anglo-American mines, ranches, and communities disrupted established Apache lifeways. The intruders set limits on where the Apaches could live and how. The Apaches, of course, had other ideas.

The initial reservation established for the Chiricahua Apaches in 1872 included at least a portion of their homeland. The Chiricahuas were unhappy with the prospect of any reservation life, but their dismay turned to anger when they were evicted from this reserve and forcibly gathered with other Apache groups on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona in the mid-1870s. Geronimo bitterly resented the move, and he especially disliked San Carlos. For the next decade he and his followers repeatedly broke out from what they saw as imprisonment. Once clear of San Carlos, they were difficult to locate and bring back, for they knew well the country of southern Arizona and northern Mexico. Time after time, Geronimo sought a more unfettered existence, despite the best efforts of the U.S. Army.

Geronimo's repeated escapes embarrassed and provoked politicians, army officers, and the non-Indian populace of the Southwest. His very name brought terror to the people who continually heard of his evading capture and occasionally killing Anglo-Americans and Mexicans. Territorial newspaper headlines blared his name, time and again.

His final surrender to Gen. Nelson Miles in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona, just north of the Mexican border, on September 4, 1886, truly marked the end of a chapter in Apache and western American history. It meant exile for himself and almost four hundred of his fellows. They were sent by train to incarceration at Fort Pickens, Florida; Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama; and finally, in 1894, Fort Sill, near Lawton, Oklahoma. Geronimo spent more than fourteen years at Fort Sill, although he was allowed sporadically to appear at world's fairs and other gatherings. He was a celebrity in defeat but still a captive when he died and was buried at Fort Sill in the new state of Oklahoma.

Bibliography:

Angie Debo, Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place (1976).


Author:

Peter Iverson

See also Indians.




History
Directory > Reference > History Geronimo (juh-ron-uh-moh)

An Apache leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A brave and unrelenting warrior, Geronimo was among the last to lead Native Americans against white settlers. He took to farming at the end of his life.

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what is the true meaning of the word or name Geronimo?
The name the whites gave Geronimo so what is his real indian name and why did in war wheb military jump from planes they would say Geronimo

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The Real Name of Geronimo is "Goyahkia" which means in the Apache Language" the one who yawns.
Because Mexicans who feard these Apaches since a long time could not pronounce the Name and called him Geronimo.
Because Geronimo spread so much Fear along to days Mexican Border, North Mexico and Arizona and New Mexico every time something happened people wisp herd in fear his name.
White Settlers and the Military just took it from the Mexicans and used it name when ever.
And I guess that was also the reason why their used his name jumping from planes.

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Geronimo (Chiricahua Goyaałé 'One Who Yawns'; often spelled Goyathlay in English), (June 16, 1829–February 17, 1909) was a prominent Native American leader of the Chiricahua Apache who long warred against the encroachment of settlers of European descent on tribal lands.
In 1940, the night before their first mass jump, U.S. paratroopers at Fort Benning saw a film about Geronimo, and began shouting his name during jumps, a trend which has caught on elsewhere

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It means Jerome or sacred defined. There are 20 variant forms of the name. Gerome, Geronimo, Gerrie, Gerry, Hierome, Hieronim, Hieronimus, Hieronymos, Hieronymus, Jairo, Jairome, Jeroen, Jeromo, Jeronimo, Jerrome, Jerron, Jerrone, and Jerry

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Geronimo is the Spanish spelling of Hieronymus or Jerome.
He was an Apache chief who lived from 1829-1909.

His name is used by paratroopers as a battle cry.
I forgot the reason. Try Google.

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The boy's name Geronimo is pronounced hare-ROH-nee-moh, jer-RAH-nah-moh. It is of Italian origin. Variant of Jerome (Greek) "sacred name", a saint's name. The Native American Geronimo (19th century) was one of the last of the renowned Apache warrior chiefs.

Geronimo has 6 variant forms: Heronimo, Herinomos, Hieronimo, Hieronymus, Jeronimo and Jeronimus.

Search for names similar to Geronimo starting with Ge-, Ger-, Gero-, Geron- or ending with -mo, -imo.

Geronimo is a rare male first name as it was not ranked for males of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census. Geronimo is a very popular surname, ranking 20238 out of 88799 for people of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census.

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Geronimo is spanish for Jerome.

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Geronimo means: "Love can give wings to fly" it becomes popular from the movie "Conspiracy Theory" Starred by Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts.