Bad Indians
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“A searing indictment of the ravages of the past and a hopeful look at the courage to confront and overcome them.”
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Winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award
Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award
Shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing
Identity and history at their most dynamic, creative, and personal
“If we allow the pieces of our culture to lie scattered in the dust of history, trampled on by racism and grief, then yes, we are irreparably damaged. But if we pick up the pieces and use them in new ways that honor their integrity, their colors, textures, stories—then we do those pieces justice, no matter how sharp they are, no matter how much handling them slices our fingers and makes us bleed.”
This beautiful and devastating book—part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir—should be required 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.
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