Geronimo and the Presidents Bush

According to Wikipedia - and you all know how much we love and trust Wikipedia - according to Wikipedia, the super secret Yale University society, Skull and Bones, may have done some serious grave robbing in 1918 and stolen the skull and some of the bones of Geronimo.  Those doing the alleged stealing included one Prescott Bush, grandfather and great-grandfather to the Presidents Bush.

Seems back during World War I, young Prescott was serving as an Army volunteer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma along with five members of their Yale Skull and Bones Club.  I'm certain that if the story is true, those frisky young men thought it would be cool to "acquire" some actual bones for the Club's "tomb."  Supposedly they also got Geronimo's silver bridle, saddle horn and bit.

This is very serious business to the Apaches because of their tribal traditions.  Traditions aside,
how would you feel if your father's grave had been robbed and his bones secreted away?

First, Geronimo's grave was not even marked back in 1918, so how did they even find the grave?
Second, no one knew about the theft until 1986 when an anonymous envelope containing a log book, photos, and a letter of explanation showed up at the San Carlos Reservation.  Would you be surprised to know that the Skull and Bones attorney claimed that the 1918 log book was a hoax?  (Why would a college club need an attorney???) 

Wikipedia  goes on to say: Then, in 2006, Marc Wortman discovered a 1918 letter from Skull & Bones member Winter Mead to F. Trubee Davison that claimed the theft:

The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club... is now safe inside the tomb and bone together with his well worn femurs, bit and saddle horn.

This generated a letter being sent to George W. Bush requesting his attention to resolving the question of his grandfather's alleged theft.  Apparently there was no resolution because in 2009, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of Geronimo's descendants naming Skull and Bones, Robert Gates (U.S. Secretary of Defense) and Barack Obama, asking for the return of Geronimo's bones.

Up jumps The New York Times with an article saying the attorney "acknowledged that he had no hard proof that the story was true."  The Bush family also says there is no truth to the story.  But now you, at least, have the information in that vault of your memory, and if the subject comes up at your next family gathering you can share your latest and greatest info :)