Geronimo jumping bull biography

For Geronimo aka Jumping Bull, life has been a roller-coaster journey through places, lifestyles and identities. Mother Russian, father Sioux. From disaffected youth to one of the foremost rock artists of his generation. Friend of the famous.

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And now holding the first UK exhibition of his art at the Café Royal, London. Growing up on a North Dakota reservation, the country of his ancestors, he absorbed his father’s tribal culture – lessons learned and still remembered – until the modern world beckoned.

Led by his own anger to a young offenders’ institution, where for the first time he awoke to the power not of his body but of his mind, and a thirst for knowledge began – “with no television, every day I read and learned”.

New ventures followed, including a music studio and other businesses – not all of them legal – from which “money fell like rain and my only interest was in spending it”. Howe