HARTFORD, Conn. - A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University's ultra-secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo. AP Updated: 1:54 p.m. ET May 9, 2006 There's also a petition online to get to the bottom of this, which I recently signed.
The Apache were misunderstood to be local groups but had extended kinship groups across large landscapes according to Morris Opler, 1930's, U of Chicago, Ph.D, who also wrote three briefs on the rights of Americans in internment camps in the 1940's, two which were heard by the Supreme Court. People of Japanese (our word) ancestry were also taken forcibly out of 17 other countries in Central and South America and brought to camps in the U.S. They never were recompensed for it as U.S. citizens were to some extent in the Reagan administration.
Morris Opler's brother, Marvin K. Opler, Ph.D. an "honorary Navaho", his wife had a Masters of Biology, was also a fairly well-known psychological anthropologist. When I studied with him, (1974) he had been asked to evaluate some of the "Mid-Manhattan Project" results, a $10 million NIMH study that used a battery of available psychological tests to evaluate a square block in NYC for the statistical incidence of mental problems in the US. It was compared to the previous results used to evaluate "fitness for service" based on a cross-section of the state of Minnesota's mostly rural population begun in the late 1930's: the M.M.P.I. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Either rural America is more adaptable to "neuroses" or the general incidence of "neuroses" has gone up, then an initial conclusion. His son is a psychiatrist in the Bronx, NY.
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