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Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir
Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir is a mixed-genre book by Deborah Miranda published by Heyday Books in 2012.

The book is part tribal history of the California Mission Indians as well as a memoir of the author's family's experiences. It combines oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, poems, and personal reflection to tell the stories of Miranda's Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family along with the experiences of California Indians during the Spanish missions and into the present. Following a mostly chronological order, the book begins in 1770 with the Spanish building a string of missions along the California coast and moves forward through time. Through a mission project and edits done to pages of a coloring book, Miranda discusses the teaching of California Missions in schools and American history. She also pulls from her mother's extensive genealogy records and her grandfather's cassette tapes in order to tell the stories of her own family. The book spans decades, drawing connections between the violence shown to the Mission Indians and the personal abuse Miranda experienced in her life.

Since its release the book has received favorable reviews from Booklist and Native American author Linda Hogan, among others. Kirkus Reviews called it, "A searing indictment of the ravages of the past and a hopeful look at the courage to confront and overcome them." For the book Miranda won a 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award gold medal for the Autobiography/Memoir category. Additionally, she won a 2015 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2014 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.

Authors and Books

 * It does not look like there is a Wikipedia entry for Wabanaki Blues so that could be a potential page to create. Additionally, Wabanaki Blues does not appear to be listed as one of Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel's works on her Wikipedia page.
 * While The Right to Be Cold is mentioned under the 'Political positions' section of Sheila Watt-Cloutier's Wikipedia page, it does not have its own page. I was unable to determine if The Right to Be Cold would meet Wikipedia's Notability criteria for books but Watt-Cloutier's page could be edited to list the book under her publications.
 * Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir does not have a page on Wikipedia. It appears to meet threshold standards (i.e. has an ISBN, is not self-published) and additional Notability criteria. The book is a Gold Medal winner of the Independent Publishers Award and has won the PEN-Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and a brief Google Scholar search shows that it has been cited and written about in a number of independently published works. However, this still does not necessarily mean that the book would be considered notable by Wikipedia's standards.

Other
In browsing Wikipedia's List of Native American women of the United States I noticed Carrie Underwood listed as an enrolled tribal member of the Muskogee Creek Nation. When I did further research, I found conflicting information about her status as a enrolled member, including an article in which she seemed to dispel that she is Native American so this could be a topic to look into. (However, Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel is not on the list of Native American women of the United States.)