An Indian Among Los Indgenas - A Native Travel Memoir

"Memoir by Ursula Pike (Karuk) of her time serving with the Peace Corps in Bolivia. Focusing on international travel from a California Indian perspective, the memoir asks what it means to be both colonizer and colonized, and inquires into the challenges of building relationships between Indigenous groups from very different places"--Provided by publisher.

List of contents

Preface

1 A la Llegada – Upon Arrival

2 Cochabamba

3 La Clase de Baile – The Dance Lesson

4 Primer Viaje a Kantuta – First Trip to Kantuta

5 En la Noche – In the Evening

6 El Centro Infantil – The Children’s Center

7 La Ch’alla – The Christening

8 Ropa Sucia – Dirty Laundry

9 La Repostería – The Baker

10 Misiñawi – Cat Eyes 81

11 La Noche Más Fría del Año – The Coldest Night of the Year

12 Amigos – Friends

13 La Aislamiento – Isolation

14 La Celebración – The Celebration

15 Aventura – Adventure

16 La Flota – The Bus

17 Cantando – Singing

18 Bailando – Dancing

19 Casa – Home

20 Mi Salida – Departure

Afterword

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the author

Ursula Pike is the author of An Indian Among los Indígenas and is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her work won the 2019 Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest in the memoir category, and her writing has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, World Literature Today, and Ligeia Magazine. She has an MA in economics, with a focus on community economic development, and was a Peace Corps fellow at Western Illinois University. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia from 1994 to 1996. An enrolled member of the Karuk Tribe, she was born in California and grew up in Daly City, California, and Portland, Oregon. She currently lives in Austin, Texas.

Product details

• Authors: Ursula Pike
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.2025
• EAN: 9781597146708
• ISBN: 978-1-59714-670-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, Memoirs, TRAVEL / South America / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Travel & holiday, La Paz, Indigenous Peoples, Travel and holiday, Travel and holiday guides, Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies