Bad Indians A Tribal Memoir



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Bad Indians A Tribal Memoir Deborah A Miranda

014 Bad Indians; a tribal memoir. Miranda, Deborah A. Heyday 2013 217 pages $18.95 E78 Miranda, an enrolled member of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation of California, has written two books of poetry and teaches English at Washington and Lee University.

Bad Indians A Tribal Memoir

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Bad Indians A Tribal Memoir

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Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir By Deborah A. Miranda

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Bad Indians A Tribal Memoir Summary

A powerful memoir, Bad Indians weaves together poetry, history, genealogy, and prose with devastating vulnerability. Every section has something new to teach her readers. Through this book, we are delivered an intimate look into the past of not just one person, but a whole group of people through her Ohlone-Esselen heritage. Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir Book – Non-fiction and prose. A compilation of documents, photos, and memoir that recounts the establishment of missions in California and the impact on Indigenous people—then and today.

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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.