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Author Pike, Ursula, 1968- author.

Title An Indian among los Indígenas : a native travel memoir / Ursula Pike.

Publication Info. Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2021]

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B PIKE, URSULA    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B PIKE, U.    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 233 pages ; 23 cm
Contents A la llegada = Upon arrival -- Cochabamba -- La clase de baile = The dance lesson -- Primer viaje a Kantuta = First trip to Kantuta -- En la noche = In the evening -- El centro infantil = The children's center -- La ch'alla = The christening -- Ropa sucia = Dirty laundry -- La reposteria = The bakery -- Misiñawi = Cat eyes -- La noche más fría del año = The coldest night of the year -- Amigos = Friends -- La aislamiento = Isolation -- La celebración = The celebration -- Aventura = Adventure -- La flota = The bus -- Cantando = Singing -- Bailando = Dancing -- Casa = Home -- Mi salida = Departure.
Summary "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.
Subject Indians of South America -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00970077
California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
Bolivia -- Colonization.
Indians of North America -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00969904
Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Bolivia -- History -- 20th century.
Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Biography.
Indians of North America -- California -- Social conditions.
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Karok women -- Biography.
Bolivia. (OCoLC)fst01205549
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- California -- Social conditions.
Subject Colonization. (OCoLC)fst00868483
Karok women. (OCoLC)fst00986346
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Subject Indians of South America -- Bolivia -- Social conditions.
Pike, Ursula, 1968- -- Travel -- Bolivia.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- South America -- Bolivia -- Social conditions.
Subject Peace Corps (U.S.) (OCoLC)fst00536303
Other Form: Online version: Pike, Ursula, 1968- Indian among los IndíIgenas Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2021] 9781597145282 (DLC) 2020030726
ISBN 9781597145275 (hardcover)
9781597145282 (ebook)
1597145270
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