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Indeh: An Apache Odyssey

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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.

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.

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

I purchased this book for my Husband as a gift he says it is the best book he has read about the apache people. He is finding it fascinating and historically very awakening, and a new insight into this era.