As if Bush wasn't in enough trouble over the immigration mess, wait till the American Indians get hold of him. Today's LA Times reports that Bush's grandfather might have been the culprit who dug up Apache chief Geronimo's skull, so that rich white kids who belonged to the elite Skull and Bones fraternity could play their power games with it:

HARTFORD, Conn. — A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University's secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo.

The letter, written by one member of Skull and Bones to another, purports that the skull and some of the Indian leader's remains were spirited from his burial plot in Ft. Sill, Okla., to a stone tomb in New Haven that serves as the club's headquarters.

According to Skull and Bones legend, members — including President Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush — dug up Geronimo's grave when a group of Army volunteers from Yale were stationed at the fort during World War I. Geronimo died in 1909.

"The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible, exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club … is now safe inside the [Tomb] together with his well worn femurs, bit & saddle horn," according to the letter, written by Winter Mead.

As Geronimo left descendants, there's no reason why DNA testing couldn't establish the skull's lineage.

American Indians aren't the only people interested in the story. So are Indian Indians. The Times of India elaborates on the rites:

Alumni include US president Bush, Senator John Kerry, president William Howard Taft, numerous members of Congress, media leaders, Wall Street financiers, the scions of wealthy families and agents in the CIA.

Members swear an oath of secrecy about the group and its strange rituals, which includes devotion to the number '322' and initiation rites that include confessing sexual secrets and kissing a skull.

(My secrets are my own affairs, and not a proper subject of group rights, or group rites.)

Hmmm....

Has anyone asked Senator Kerry to comment?

MORE: The issue is graver than even I imagined. Look what I just dug up:

In all fairness, though, it has to be remembered that no one is accusing President Bush of invading burial grounds (which means there are no grounds for impeachment).