Miranda (Ohlone-Costanoan
Esselen Nation) is the author of Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award) as well as three poetry collections.
Miranda, an enrolled member of the Ohlone Costanoan
Esselen Nation of California, has written two books of poetry and teaches English at Washington and Lee University.
Author Deborah Miranda tells of her Ohlone Costanoan
Esselen family history in the course of relating stories about California Indians through oral histories, newspaper reports, and anthropological recordings.
On the way we stopped at the "Minitrack" Radio Tracking Station at
Esselen Park.
Isabel Anna Maria Groh, Chen Chen, Claudia Luske, Alexander Thomas Cartus, and Melanie
EsselenThe authors undertook a three-arm study at the
Esselen clinic, an urban primary health care clinic in the inner city of Johannesburg.
Earliest inhabitants included the Native American
Esselen tribe, followed by pioneers who settled the area in the late 19th century.
Although
Esselen Park, just north of Johannesburg, had been earmarked as the proposed centre, SAFA officials failed to kick-start the much-needed $2m refurbishments.
The rugged coastline and Santa Lucia Mountains were home to 1,200
Esselen Indians who lived in small bands and left scant record of their society.
Once the bones were determined ancient and not to be investigated as the remains of a crime, a call was made to representatives of the
Esselen Nation, which has local ancestral roots.
Esselen Assocs., 902 F.2d 1098, 1105 (2d Cir.1990); In re Atl.
Esselen Assocs., Inc.), 902 F.2d 1098, 1101 (2d Cir.
Nakaphala, W (1998) 'Northern Province', in Final Proceedings, National Asbestos Summit, November 24-26, 1998,
Esselen Park, Johannesburg.
MIRANDA is a mixed-blood woman of Chumash and
Esselen descent.
California is considered one of the world's linguistic treasure troves, having produced perhaps 100 languages, including
Esselen from Carmel and Osbispeno from Santa Barbara--both now extinct.