Onondaga Nation leaders blast 'Geronimo' codename for Bin Laden

National Archives, Ben Wittick / AP PhotoThis photo shows the famed Indian warrior Geronimo, a Chiricahua Apache, posing with a rifle in 1887.

““These inappropriate uses of Native American icons and cultures are prevalent throughout our society, and the impacts to Native and non-Native children are devastating,” Tuell said.

Steven Newcomb, a columnist for the weekly newspaper Indian Country Today, criticized what he called a disrespectful use of a name revered by many Native Americans.
Apparently, having an African-American president in the White House is not enough to overturn the more than 200-year American tradition of treating and thinking of Indians as enemies of the United States,” Newcomb wrote."
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A new low for Obama and for whomever thought it was a good idea!..Geronimo was a most honorable man! That America shows contempt to this hero for his people , symbol of resistance for all the oppressed and dispossessed says more about those people than thousand books!
Puke!