Indeh: An Apache Odyssey [Paperback]

Eve Ball (Author)

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Publication Date: September 15, 1988

"A fascinating account of Apache history and ethnography. All the narratives have been carefully chosen to illustrate important facets of the Apache experience. Moreover, they make very interesting reading....This is a major contribution to both Apache history and to the history of the Southwest....The book should appeal to a very wide audience. It also should be well received by the Native American community. Indeh is oral history at its best."---R. David Edmunds, Utah Historical Quarterly

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About the Author

Eve Ball held bachelors and master?s degree and an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Along-time resident of Ruidoso, on the edge of the Mescalero Apache reservation in southern New Mexico, she conducted her interviews and her research among the Apaches over three decades. Nora Henn and Lynda A. Sanchez, friends who help Ball prepare her manuscript, have since pursued Indian studies and the history of Lincoln County, New Mexico.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press (September 15, 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806121653
• ISBN-13: 978-0806121659
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #112,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars INDEH, February 2, 2010

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This review is from: Indeh: An Apache Odyssey (Paperback)

Eve Ball captures verbal history from living tribal and family members of the various bands of the Apaches. The interviews highlites the the territorial history of New Mexico and Arizona to include the excursions into Mexico of the Apaches stuggle to survive the expansion of the westword movement of the"white eyes". The capture of the Apache leaders and the mistreatment of the Apache families is very revealing. One can only come away with a better understanding of suffering of the Apache and their distrust of the U.S. Governments treaties. Excellent reading.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommeded, October 20, 2009

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This review is from: Indeh: An Apache Odyssey (Hardcover)

This book is compiled from interviews with many Apaches. It tells the story from their perspective. You begin to understand them better as people. A great resource that is not clouded by military officer reports but is highly cross referenced with other resources. Highly recommended for any one truly interested in the plight of the Chiricahua.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Direct words of Apaches provide window into recent history., June 14, 1997

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This review is from: Indeh: An Apache Odyssey (Paperback)

I picked this book up in Bisbee, AZ on a recent trip. Expecting it to be dull and academic, I was delighted to find it is great reading. I could slowly read a chapter or two each night and LEARN something of what life was like for an Apache who was a boy during the last "Indian wars" of the southwest.

It has always fascinated me that this huge country was only recently occupied largely by people such as the Apaches. White people and their "civilization" were still just building their way, one stick at a time, toward a new world of artifice and hypocrisy to surround the native people of North America.

This is a rare find! Eve Ball has helped preserve some important Apache oral history translated to written form