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.
– Geronimo
In Geronimo’s Story of His Life. Speaking about the unhealthy conditions in Vermont, Alabama, where the Apaches were sent by the government and spent five years.