Lawsuit over Geronimo's skull

Geronimo's heir's are suing Skull and Bones over the possession of Geronimo's skull. Of course, by virtue of it being a secret society, it's kind of hard to know just what's true about Skull and Bones and what has been invented to bolster its morbid mystique--but it has been said for quite some time that they keep a human skull and call it Geronimo. The New York Times explains:

Geronimo died a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Okla., in 1909. A longstanding tradition among members of Skull and Bones holds that Prescott S. Bush — father of President George Bush and grandfather of President George W. Bush — broke into the grave with some classmates during World War I and made off with the skull, two bones, a bridle and some stirrups, all of which were put on display at the group’s clubhouse in New Haven, known as the Tomb.

The story gained some validity in 2005, when a historian discovered a letter written in 1918 from one Skull and Bones member to another saying the skull had been taken from a grave at Fort Sill along with several pieces of tack for a horse.

You can read the full story here.

My first reaction upon reading the headline on the N Y Times website was one of mild amusement, but upon further reflection, it seems clear to me that regardless of whether the skull actually belongs (belonged?) to Geronimo, the skull had to come from somewhere, and at some point somebody broke into somebody else's grave, which isn't fine. The very fact that members of the Skull and Bones would claim (or even pretend) to have Geronimo's skull shows a terrible lack 0f respect for Native Americans. Not that anyone really expects the Skull and Bones to be particularly enlightened, but I had hoped that their reputation was less than wholly deserved.

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