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 sc