Geronimo Hero or villian?

When you scream Geronimo do you ever picture his face? The face of an Apache tribe member looking for vengeance? All hero's are portrayed as honest and life savers. But if Geronimo killed many than does that make him a hero?
Around the mid 1850's Geronimo and his tribe were at peace with neighboring Mexican towns ,until when camping outside a Mexican village called Kas-ki-yeh. They camped there for several nights when they left to go make some trades and left a few warriors to guard the women and children and the camp while the rest of them went to trade. On the way back to the camp they crossed paths with several women and children that told them Mexican troops attacked their camp.When they returned back to the camp they found all the guard warriors dead and many of the women and children dead as well and among them were Geronimo's wife, mother and his three children which caused him to hate all Mexicans in return and turned him from a peaceful council man to a fierce warrior.
After the death of his family he then slaughtered many Mexicans and he then joined an Apache band called Chiricahuas and raided Mexico and across the borders to the United States.Geronimo fought against both Mexican troops and American troops as they all began to colonize the Apache homeland ,but around 1876 when Liuetenant Colonel George F. Crook made a peace treaty with Geronimo, but soon ended with chaos around 1876 when the U.S Government tried to relocate the Apaches to a waste land in Arizona which then caused the Apaches to revolt. Spurred by Geronimo many Apaches left and resumed their war with America and raided many American settlements.
In 1882 the state of Arizona recalled General George Crook to conduct a campaign against Apaches, and with the help of at least 5,000 American soldiers and 500 Indians help captured Geronimo. After chasing him for about 16,000 miles into the Mountains of Sonora, Mexico, tired and outnumbered Geronimo then surrendered on March 27,1886 at Cañon de Los Embudos in Sonora, Mexico.After captured they started back to Arizona ,and once nearing the border Geronimo feared he and his followers would be murdered managed to escape with the Chief Naiche, 11 warriors and a few women and boys who made it back to Sierra Madra.At a conference on Septemeber 3,1886 in Skeleton Canyon,Arizona , General Miles induced Geronimo to surrender once again, promising him that, after an indefinite exile in Florida, he and his followers would be permitted to return to Arizona. As a result that promise was never kept.Geronimo and his followers were shipped in box cars to Florida and put to hard labor.Geronimo died of pneumonia in February 1907 not before making a surprising appearance at President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade but was never able to see his homeland Arizona.
In a way Geronimo was both a hero and a villian. The only thing that made him seem like a villian was the death of his family. You have to be a hero if you are capable of fighting two nations but and never getting caught. But in the end he became a peaceful man