The memoir’s structure is a Native epistemology that tells a narrative with emphasis on relationships and a circulatory format.[3] Following a loosely chronological order, the book begins in 1770 with the Spanish building a string of missions along the California coast.[1] Through mimicking the “Mission project” as deployed in the California school curriculum and editing excerpts from a coloring book, Miranda recontextualizes how California Missions and American history are taught in schools.[1] 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.[1]
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