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Geronimo\'s raids and related combat actions were a part of the prolonged period of theApache–United States conflict, which started with the Americans continuing to take land, including Apache lands, following the end ofthe war with Mexicoin 1848. Reservation life was confining to the free-moving Apache people, and they resented restrictions on their customary way of life.Geronimo led breakouts from the reservations in attempts to return his people to their previous nomadic lifestyle. During Geronimo\'s final period of conflict from 1876 to 1886, he surrendered three times and eventually accepted life on the Apache reservations. While well-known, Geronimo was not a chief of the Bedonkohe band of the Central Apache but a shaman, as was Nokay-doklini among the Western Apache.However, since he was a superb leader in raiding and warfare, he frequently led large numbers of 30 to 50 Apache men.

In 1886, after an intense pursuit in northern Mexico by American forces that followed Geronimo\'s third 1885 reservation breakout, Geronimo surrendered for the last time to Lt.Charles Bare Gatewood. Geronimo and 27 other Apaches were later sent to join the rest of the Chiricahua tribe, which had been previously exiled toFlorida.While holding him as a prisoner, the United States capitalized on Geronimo’s fame among non-Indians by displaying him at various fairs and exhibitions. In 1898, for example, Geronimo was exhibited at theTrans-Mississippi Expositionin Omaha, Nebraska; seven years later, theIndian Officeprovided Geronimo for use in a parade at thesecond inaugurationof PresidentTheodore Roosevelt. He died at theFort Sillhospital in 1909, as a prisoner of war, and was buried at the Fort Sill Indian Agency Cemetery, among the graves of relatives and other Apache prisoners of war.