where did the saying "geronimo" come from?

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Answer 1

Geronimo
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(Born in 1829, Geronimo lived in western New Mexico when this region was still a part of Mexico. Geronimo was a Bedonkohe Apache that married into the Chiricahuas. The murder of his mother, wife and children by Spanish troops from Mexico in 1858 forever changed his life and the settlers of the southwest. He vowed at this point to kill as many white men as possible and spent the next thirty years making good on that promise. Surprisingly, Geronimo was a medicine man and not a chief of the Apache. However, his visions made him indispensable to the Apache chiefs and gave him a position of prominence with the Apache. In the mid 1870's the government moved Native Americans onto reservations, and Geronimo took exception to this forced removal and fled with a band of followers. He spent the next 10 years on reservations and raiding with his band. They raided across New Mexico, Arizona and northern Mexico. His exploits became highly chronicled by the press and he became the most feared Apache. Geronimo and his band were eventually captured at Skeleton Canyon in 1886. The Chiricahua Apache were then shipped by rail to Florida. )

Geronimo was the leader of the last American Indian fighting force formally to capitulate to the United States. Because he fought against such daunting odds and held out the longest, he became the most famous Apache of all. To the pioneers and settlers of Arizona and New Mexico, he was a bloody-handed murderer and this image endured until the second half of this century.

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Answer 2

Geronimo, the Chiricahua Apache leader
Geronimo Pratt, a human rights activist and former member of the Black Panther Party
César Gerónimo, a Major League Baseball player
Geronimo Peña, a former Major League Baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals
Don Geronimo, stage name of radio personality Michael Sorce
Fatz Geronimo, a character in The Rock-afire Explosion
Saint Francis de Geronimo
Licerio Geronimo, a general of the Philippines
Sarah Geronimo, a Filipina actress
Geronimo (Kinnikuman), a character in Kinnikuman
Geronimo Media House
Geronimo (Astroboy 1980), a fictional character in Osamu Tezuka's 1980s Astroboy (Canadian dub)

Answer 3

Geronimo was an Apache leader. Born 1829 and died in 1909. In the 1870's he led a revolt of 4000 Apaches who had been forcibly removed by U.S authorities to a barren reservation in central Arizona. After years of turmoil and bloodshed Geronimo surrendered in 1884 only to escape shortly thereafter. On a false promise to return safely to Arizona, he was arrested (1886) and put to hard labor, then place on a reservation at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. He wrote his own biography there which is entitled; GERONIMO: His Own Story.

Answer 4

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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. This custom is spoofed in the movie Hot Shots! Part Deux, when a planeload of parachuters jump out one by one, shouting, "Geronimo!" followed by a man dressed in Native American garb, who jumps out shouting, "Me!".

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Answer 5

Geronimo was an Apache leader who led the last revolt against the U.S. Army in the late 1880's.

Answer 6

You asked WHERE did the saying " Geronimo " come from , not WHO was Geronimo , therefore MAKA was correct in his answer

It should also be noted that modern day fighting tactics ( guerilla warfare ) can be attributed to Geronimo as this was his way of attacking his enemies

Answer 7

Geronimo was the name of an Native American who led his tribe into battle.

Answer 8

Chiricahua Apache leader who resisted the U.S. government policy to consolidate his people on reservations by leading a series of raids against Mexican and American settlements in the Southwest (1876–1886)


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Answer 10

Yea he was a native american and the story goes that he was being chased by the army towards a cliff and instead of giving himself up he jumped off the cliff on his horse. He shouted his name on the way down similar to how paratroopers that were hit in the war would shout 'geronimooooo' and fly into an enemy