![]() The societys membership roster includes some of Americas most powerful families: the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Fords, Phelps, Pillsburys, Walkers, and Whitneys. He says they are disapppointed in the July 27 ruling and intend to fight on, the student newspaper reports.ĪBAJournal. Skull and Bones has been considered the epitome of the Eastern establishment, the confluence of old money, power, and prestige. attorney general, is representing the plaintiffs in the case. The Russell family fortune was gained in large part through illegal 19th-century opium smuggling in Turkey and China. The Order’s co-founders were William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft. District Judge Richard Roberts held that the law under which Skull and Bones was sued, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, only applies to grave robberies that took place after its enactment in 1990.Īttorney Ramsey Clark, who formerly served as U.S. The Order of Skull and Bones, or The Order, is an ultra-secretive organization founded at Yale in 1832. Department of Justice, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., held that the government hadn’t waived its sovereign immunity, and hence federal officials can’t be sued in the case to force them to permit Geronimo’s descendants to remove his remains still at Fort Sill and reinter them in New Mexico near his birthplace, reports the Yale Daily News.Īnd, as far as the secret society is concerned, U.S. A student secret society at Yale University has won a court battle, at least for now, over remains of the Apache warrior Geronimo that a member or members of Skull and Bones allegedly stole from his grave at a prisoner-of-war cemetery at Fort Sill, Okla., around 1918, and brought to its headquarters in New Haven, Conn. ![]()
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