A Season on the Reservation: My Soujourn with the White Mountain Apache

by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Book Overview

Nearly a decade after leaving professional basketball, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar decided to return to the sport he loved by becoming the assistant coach of the Alchesay Falcons--a high school team composed... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688170773
• ISBN13: 9780688170776
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, thoughtful book

Kareem tries to impart the difficulties of introducing a western cultural ideal to a group of young men that are trying to keep their own cultural ideals intact while at the same time competing within the majority culture. This book reflects Kareem's own difficulties in aculturation, and his conflicts in trying to impart his basketball culture on another group. This is a thoughtful though imperfect work, less about basketball than about the difficulties of blending different people in the world today.

true insight into high school basketball and coaching

Read this in about 10 hours. As a high school women's coach, who also came up with "old school basketball" the trials and tribulations that Mr. Jabbar share during his soujourn are remarkable and true to light. I enjoyed reading this book and was glad to see that the his frustrations and joys are the same as for most high school coaches!

A Season on the Reservation: My Sojourn With the White Mount

I think this is a book you must read. In reading this book you will be able to visualize what life is like on the rez. You'll get to know the players and read about the a season with the Alchesay Falcons. I guess hearing about my reservation from the eyes of someone else was a good feeling. This book proves how unique the Apache people of the White Mountain Apache Reservation really are. Read this book and fine out what life and basketball are like on the reservation.

A Must Read

This book is a must read. You don't have to be a basketball fan, African American or Native American to relate to the author or his sojourn. He touches on human issues and lets you into to his life and the lives of the White Mountain Apache. The reader gets an insight into what makes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar tick and some of his passions. The reader gets to know the players of Alchesay High School through the eyes of a true basketball legend and highly intelligent man. You get to see a side of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar that the world has never known. I enjoyed this book and found it hard to put it down.

A Season on the Reservation

This is an excellent, easily read book about a man going through his mid-life crisis. He tries to pass along lessons of life to those who may not wish to listen or understand what he says. Congratulations, Kareem on such a fine work.