Geronimo aka “He Who Yawns”

That’s the famous Apache renegade, Geronimo.  He’s probably one of the few Indians  – or Native Americans – if you prefer the more politically correct term, that modern people know by name.  Did you know that…

• Geronimo’s birth name was Goyahkla — He Who Yawns which was given to him because of his “sleepy” nature  
•  It would be said that after one of his victims screamed for mercy in the name of Saint Jerome — Jeronimo in Spanish — the Apaches had a new name for Goyahkla.  
• …white settlers in the American West were known to frighten their misbehaving children with the threat that Geronimo would come for them.