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Author Miranda, Deborah A., author.

Title Bad indians : a tribal memoir / Deborah A. Miranda
Published Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 217 pages) : illustrations
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 "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 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. 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."-- Provided by publisher
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Notes Print version record
Subject Indians of North America -- Missions -- California
Indians of North America -- California -- History
Indians, Treatment of -- California -- History
Indians of North America
Indians of North America -- Missions
Indians, Treatment of
Race relations
Social conditions
SUBJECT California -- Race relations
California -- Social conditions
Subject California
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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