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To: Antoninus

"Punishments included cutting off people's ears and noses"



Only 20 years before George Burns was born, one of our biggest disagreements with the Apaches was that we insisted they quit cutting off womens noses for cheating.


57 posted on 08/09/2006 7:39:47 AM PDT by ansel12 (Life is exquisite... of great beauty, keenly felt.)
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To: ansel12
Only 20 years before George Burns was born, one of our biggest disagreements with the Apaches was that we insisted they quit cutting off womens noses for cheating.

If I remember correctly, the main reasons Geronimo went "off the reservation" were because the white missionaries insisted that the Apaches stop beating their wives and stop drinking alcohol.
88 posted on 08/09/2006 12:09:57 PM PDT by Antoninus (Public schools are the madrassas of the American Left. --Ann Coulter, Godless)
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