Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir

Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir

By Deborah A Miranda

Winner, PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award Winner, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal for Autobiography/Memoir Shortlisted for the 2014 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing " Bad Indians stands out as a classic quintessentially Indigenous memoir. " --Joy Harjo This beautiful and devastating book--part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir--should be required reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present.

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Publisher: Heyday Books
Publish Date: 01/01/2013
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781597142014
ISBN-10: 1597142018
Language: English

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Winner, PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award

Winner, 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold Medal for Autobiography/Memoir

Shortlisted for the 2014 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing

"Bad Indians stands out as a classic quintessentially Indigenous memoir." --Joy Harjo

This beautiful and devastating book--part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir--should be required reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. The result is a work of literary art that is wise, angry, and playful all at once, a compilation that will break your heart and teach you to see the world anew.

About the Author

Deborah A. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area in California. Deborah lives in Eugene, Oregon with her wife, writer Margo Solod, and a variety of rescue dogs. She is Professor of English emerita at Washington and Lee University, where she taught literature of the margins and creative writing as the Thomas H.

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