So many of our people died that I consented to let one of my wives go to the Mescalero Agency in New Mexico to live. This separation is according to our custom equivalent to what the white people call divorce, and so she married again soon after she got to Mescalero.
Apache leader
Discussing the impact of wars and displacement on his family life.
1907 (published)
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