Geronimo descendants’ lawsuit

THE US Justice Department asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by descendants of Apache leader Geronimo, whose remains were purported to be stolen long ago by members of a secret society at Yale University.

Geronimo’s descendants want to rebury the warrior near his birthplace in southern New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness.

Geronimo died in 1909. The lawsuit alleges that Skull and Bones members took some of the remains in 1918 from a plot in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to keep in its Connecticut clubhouse.