Now in paperback and newly expanded this gripping memoir is hailed as essential by Joy Harjo Leslie Marmon Silko and ELLE magazineamong others.Bad Indiansampamp8212part tribal history part lyric and intimate memoirampamp8212is essential reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history past and present. Widely adopted in classrooms and book clubs throughout the United States Bad Indiansampamp8212now reissued in significantly expanded formampamp8212plumbs ancestry survivance and the cultural memory of Native California.In this bestselling nowclassic memoir Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her OhloneCostanoanEsselen family and the experiences of California Indians more widely through oral histories newspaper clippings anthropological recordings personal reflections and poems.