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Bad Indians : a tribal memoir / Deborah A. Miranda.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday, ©2013.Description: xx, 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781597142014
  • 1597142018
Other title:
  • Tribal memoir
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: California is a story -- The End of the World : Missionization 1776-1836. The genealogy of violence, part I -- Los Pájaros -- Fisher of men -- My mission glossary -- A few corrections to my daughter's coloring book -- Dear Vicenta -- Isabel Meadows -- Cousins (for Victor) -- The genealogy of violence, part II.
Bridges : Post-Secularization 1836-1900. Lies My Ancestors Told for Me -- Ularia's Curse -- "The Diggers" (excerpt from O.P. Fitzgerald's "California Sketches") -- "Digger Belles" -- Burning the Digger I (newspaper article) -- Burning the Digger II -- Ishi at large -- Old news -- Jacinta's medicine -- bridges.
The Light from the Carrisa Plains : Reinvention 1900-1961. Tom's stories : Grandfathers ; Davy Jacks ; Guadalupe Robles ; The light from the Carrisa Plains ; My first drink ; He told me, have you ever been in a plane? ; When I woke up, it was daylight ; War -- "Bad Indian goes on rampage at Santa Inez" -- Novena to bad Indians -- Gonaway tribe : field notes -- Juan Justo's bones -- J.P. Harrington : a collage.
Teheyapami Achiska : Home 1961-Present. Silver -- Petroglyphs -- Mestiza nation : a future history of my tribe -- Angel in a pink Plymouth -- A California Indian in the Philadelphia airport -- Intensive Spanish : a language acquisition / resistance journal -- Learning how to fish : a language homecoming journal -- Teheyapami Achiska -- Soledad -- In the basement of the bone museum -- Testimony -- One for the road -- Coyote takes a trip -- Post-colonial thought experiment -- California pow wow -- "To make story again in the world" -- Ancestry Chart.
Summary: "In this beautiful and devastating book, part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir, Deborah Miranda tells both the stories of her Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen family and the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. Reassembling the shards of her people's past, she creates a work of literary art that is wise, angry, and playful all at once, one that will break your heart and teach you to see the world anew"--Back cover.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 305.8 M672 Available 33111010911010
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: California is a story -- The End of the World : Missionization 1776-1836. The genealogy of violence, part I -- Los Pájaros -- Fisher of men -- My mission glossary -- A few corrections to my daughter's coloring book -- Dear Vicenta -- Isabel Meadows -- Cousins (for Victor) -- The genealogy of violence, part II.

Bridges : Post-Secularization 1836-1900. Lies My Ancestors Told for Me -- Ularia's Curse -- "The Diggers" (excerpt from O.P. Fitzgerald's "California Sketches") -- "Digger Belles" -- Burning the Digger I (newspaper article) -- Burning the Digger II -- Ishi at large -- Old news -- Jacinta's medicine -- bridges.

The Light from the Carrisa Plains : Reinvention 1900-1961. Tom's stories : Grandfathers ; Davy Jacks ; Guadalupe Robles ; The light from the Carrisa Plains ; My first drink ; He told me, have you ever been in a plane? ; When I woke up, it was daylight ; War -- "Bad Indian goes on rampage at Santa Inez" -- Novena to bad Indians -- Gonaway tribe : field notes -- Juan Justo's bones -- J.P. Harrington : a collage.

Teheyapami Achiska : Home 1961-Present. Silver -- Petroglyphs -- Mestiza nation : a future history of my tribe -- Angel in a pink Plymouth -- A California Indian in the Philadelphia airport -- Intensive Spanish : a language acquisition / resistance journal -- Learning how to fish : a language homecoming journal -- Teheyapami Achiska -- Soledad -- In the basement of the bone museum -- Testimony -- One for the road -- Coyote takes a trip -- Post-colonial thought experiment -- California pow wow -- "To make story again in the world" -- Ancestry Chart.

"In this beautiful and devastating book, part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir, Deborah Miranda tells both the stories of her Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen family and the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. Reassembling the shards of her people's past, she creates a work of literary art that is wise, angry, and playful all at once, one that will break your heart and teach you to see the world anew"--Back cover.

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