An Indian among Los Indigenas
Book description
A gripping, witty memoir about indigeneity, travel, and colonialism
When she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike boarded a plane to Bolivia and began her term of service in the Peace Corps. A member of the Karuk Tribe, Pike sought to make meaningful connections with Indigenous people halfway around the world. But…
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This is the first book I’ve read about an Indigenous woman seeking to work with Indigenous women in other countries. I love the vivid, brutal honesty of the author, a Northwest Karuk tribe member named Ursula Pike, who reflects on her trying experiences as a young Peace Corps worker in Bolivia.
She is open about her sexuality, her anxieties, her failures, and her hopelessly naïve belief that because she is of indigenous heritage, she will have a special connection with the native people of Bolivia. She must come to recognize that she has privilege within the poor village where she…
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