Goyaa?é (Geronimo)

Geronimo led Chiricahua Apache resistance against U.S. and Mexican military incursion for decades, driven initially by a Mexican army massacre that killed his mother, wife, and three children in 1858. He became a renowned war shaman and leader whose small bands evaded thousands of pursuing troops across the brutal terrain of Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico, surrendering and escaping reservation confinement multiple times through the 1870s and 1880s. His final surrender in 1886 to General Nelson Miles effectively ended organized armed Native resistance in the Southwest. He spent the rest of his life as a prisoner of war, never permitted to return to his homeland, eventually settling at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he farmed, converted to Christianity, and became, improbably, a celebrity — appearing at the 1904 World's Fair and riding in Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 inaugural parade, selling autographed photos and bows to tourists who paid to see the man once called the most feared warrior in the Southwest.