[Antoninus]

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.

[ansel12]

"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."


The book I'm reading now "Raiders of the Southwest" is more specific he says

"These were the prohibition against the making and drinking of tiswin (a drink made from fermented corn), and the Prohibition against mistreating wives, particularly against cutting off the end of the nose of unfaithful wives."

This was in 1885 (about 12 years before George Burns).