Bad Indians Book

Written by people who wish to remain anonymous Deborah Miranda's 2012 book Bad Indiansis a unique one, particularly because its unique structure and because it is a mixed-genre book. To that end, the book is both a history of the authors tribe of California Indians and a memoir of the authors family. No Indian ever killed another, and hate was a word not yet known. Where all the natives lived in harmony and voluntarily gave of themselves for the greater good. Even until the very end, when the priest would cut out the still-beating heart from the sacrifice. The Bad Boys’ Guide To The Good Indian Girl provides insights into why Indian women do the things they do. Review by Anjana Basu. According to the authors of The Bad Boys’ Guide To The Good Indian Girl, Annie Zaidi and Smriti Ravindra, the Good Indian Girl, or the GIG, is a ‘condition’ and the word ‘good’ isn’t the opposite of bad.

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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.

Product Details

$20.00$18.40

Heyday Books

January 01, 2013

240

6.0 X 8.9 X 0.6 inches | 0.82 pounds

English

Paperback

9781597142014

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About the Author

Bad Indians Book Summary

Deborah A. Miranda is an enrolled member of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation of California, and is also of Chumash and Jewish ancestry. The author of two poetry collections--Indian Cartography, which won the Diane Decorah Award for First Book from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas, and The Zen of La Llorona, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award--she also has a collection of essays, The Hidden Stories of Isabel Meadows and Other California Indian Lacunae, forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press. Miranda is an associate professor of English at Washington and Lee University and says reading lists for her students include as many books by 'bad Indians' as possible.

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