An Indian Among Los Indigenas: A Native Memoir

 


Title: An Indian Among Los Indigenas: A Native Memoir
Genre: Non-fiction
Author: Ursula Pike
Major Awards:  Peace Corps Writers’ Marian Haley Beil Award
Grade Level: 12
Age: 17-18



Summary: When she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike boarded a plane to Bolivia and began her two years 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 she arrived in La Paz with trepidation as well as excitement, “knowing I followed in the footsteps of Western colonizers and missionaries who had also claimed they were there to help.” In the following two years, as a series of dramatic episodes brought that tension to boiling point, she began to ask: what does it mean to have experienced the effects of colonialism firsthand, and yet to risk becoming a colonizing force in turn?






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