Editing Geronimo (section)

== Family ==
[[File:Geronimo, as US prisoner.jpg|thumb|upright|Geronimo as a U.S. prisoner in 1905]] [[File:Ta-ayz-slath, wife of Geronimo, and one child.jpg|thumb|upright|Ta-ayz-slath, wife of Geronimo, and child|left]]Geronimo married Chee-hash-kish, and they had two children, Chappo and Dohn-say. Then he took another wife, Nana-tha-thtith, with whom he had one child.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wives and burial place of Geronimo |url=http://www.aaanativearts.com/apache/geronimo-wives-burial-place.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427195808/https://www.aaanativearts.com/apache/geronimo-wives-burial-place.htm |archive-date=April 27, 2021 |access-date=September 4, 2009}}</ref> He later had a wife named Zi-yeh at the same time as another wife, She-gha, one named Shtsha-she and later a wife named Ih-tedda. Geronimo's ninth and last wife was Azul.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gatewood |first=Charles B. |title=Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |year=2009 |editor=Louis Kraft |page=xxxiii |quote=His ninth wife was Azul (1850–1934), a Chokonen who had been captured by Mexicans early in her life. She did not marry Geronimo until the Apache prisoners of war moved to Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory (probably 1907). She remained with him until his death in 1909 and never remarried. |author-link=Charles B. Gatewood}}</ref>

One of Gernimo's daughters, likely Dohn-say, was married to [[Zebina Streeter]]. Although Streeter was well respected by Geronimo's band and referred to as "White Apache", it was shameful to acknowledge the relationship, as intermarriage with whites was considered dishonorable.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Robinson |first1=Sherry |last2=Ball |first2=Eve |title=Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival as Told to Eve Ball |date=8 January 2003 |publisher=UNM Press |isbn=978-0-8263-2163-3 |page=46 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Apache_Voices/t8VIryIK7dMC |access-date=17 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

The great-great-grandson of Geronimo, Harlyn Geronimo, taught Apache language lessons at the [[Mescalero]] Apache Reservation until his death in 2020.<ref name="5thgenGeronimo">{{Cite web |title=Mescalero Apache Tribe Performs Blessing Ceremony at White Sands Missile Range |url=https://www.army.mil/article/225592/mescalero_apache_tribe_performs_blessing_ceremony_at_white_sands_missile_range |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416143030/https://www.army.mil/article/225592/mescalero_apache_tribe_performs_blessing_ceremony_at_white_sands_missile_range |archive-date=April 16, 2021 |access-date= |website=www.army.mil |date=August 9, 2019 |language=en|first = Chuck D|last = Roberts}}</ref>