Bad Indians Quotes

“Sometimes something is so badly broken you cannot recreate its original shape at all. If you try, you create a deformed, imperfect image of what you’ve lost; you will always compare what your creation looks like with what it used to look like.”
― Deborah A. Miranda, Bad Indians

“As Cherokee writer Thomas King says, “Take it. It’s yours. Do with it what you will. But don’t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve heard it now.”
― Deborah A. Miranda, Bad Indians

“In 1851 and 1852, Congress appropriated and paid out over one million dollars in bounties to white men who harvested Indian scalps from the California goldfields--scalps taken from men, women, and children by men eager to make easy money.”
― Deborah A. Miranda, Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir