‘Bad Indians’ Author Deborah Miranda Continues Fight for Native Californians

Deborah Miranda is an award-winning poet, writer, professor, and an enrolled member of the Ohlone/Costanoan-Esselen Nation of the Greater Monterey Bay Area, with Santa Ynez Chumash ancestry. Miranda researched wax cylinder recordings made almost a century ago of some of the last speakers of indigenous languages in California, along with other primary source materials about the history of California Indians, for her award winning book, “Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir.” It features drawings, poems, newspaper clippings, photos, and prose. Miranda talks with host Sasha Khokha about the book, which has just been released with new material for an updated 10th anniversary edition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices