Using the name of the great Native-American hero Geronimo either for the operation that tracked down Osama bin Laden to his hiding place in Pakistan, or for the al-Qaida leader himself, was an insensitive choice of nomenclature for a brilliantly executed task.
For the life of me, I could not remember the name of the country where Tarzan, Jane, the natives, and Tarzan's sidekick, Cheetah the Chimpanzee lived--all I could recall is that the show referred to the jungle as "Darkest Africa".
Together, they hope to help Mission Dolores find a way to display the names of the 5,700 native neophytes buried anonymously in the mission cemetery.
This isn't 1621, the Pilgrims aren't running around murdering the natives in the name of the church.
But the name of the champion, Rulon Gardner -- the most famous native of Afton -- has been covered in silver spray paint.
The name of the creek is derived from a Salinan Native American word "slay" or "islay", the name for the Prunus ilicifolia wild cherries.
In the late '80s and early '90s, "Crying Game" director Neil Jordan and "In the Name of the Father" director Jim Sheridan began to put native Irish cinema on the map and Ireland began to enjoy a period of rapid economic growth.
The title of the song comes from the name of a Native American village that was situated in lower Manhattan, roughly where Greenwich Village is now, before the Dutch arrived.
