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.
- ISBN10 1597142018
- ISBN13 9781597142014
- Publish Date 14 February 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 December 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Heyday Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 240
- Language English