GERONIMO WAS MY TIO

June 16 1829- February 17, 1909

Goyaale - Goyathlay - Goyahkla - Golthlay - Gokhlayeh

My mother told me many times that the great Apache warrior, Geronimo, was our Tio [uncle].

My great great grandmother, Maria Dolores Quintana, spoke Apache.

Dolores and her daughter Rumalda would go up to the montes [forests] above

El Llano de San Juan Nepomusino, Taos, New Mexico to visit the Apaches.

There is an Apache Canyon near Chamisal.

One of my uncles [through marriage] was a full blood Apache in Peñasco.

Juan Esteban Quintana, son of Maria Dolores Quintana, was said to be the son of Geronimo's brother

Geronimo Genealogy

Geronimo was the grandson of Chief Mah-ko

GOYATHLAY

GERONIMO AS U.S. PRISONER

GERONIMO'S GRAVE

Suggested Websites

Findagrave.com

Indigenous People

Wikipedia

Suggested books to read

Geronimo: His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior

by Frederick Turner, Geronimo, and Stephen Melvil Barrett

I Fought With Geronimo

by Jazon Betzinez with Wilbur Sturtevant Nye

The First Hundred Years of Nino Cochise: The Untold Story of an Apache Indian Chief

by Ciye Nino Cochise and A. Kinney Griffith

 

I have not found any documented link in my family tree to Geronimo.

If you have any information, please contact me:  Stanley A. Lucero